Bill Text: NY A08505 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the rejection by voting machines of ballots that contain a vote for a candidate who previously withdrew from an election.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to election law [A08505 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08505-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8505

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 7, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN  ACT  to  amend the election law, in relation to ballots that contain
          the name of a candidate who previously withdrew from an election

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  7-202 of the election law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph u to read as follows:
     3    u. for elections held on or after January first, two thousand  twenty-
     4  one,  reject  any  ballot  cast  by  a voter which contains a vote for a
     5  candidate that withdrew his or her name  as  a  candidate  for  election
     6  prior  to  such  election  and  whose  name  appears on the ballot. Upon
     7  rejection of such ballot, the voting machine shall provide notice to the
     8  voter that the ballot has been rejected. Such notice  shall  also  state
     9  the  name  of  the  person who is not longer a candidate and a statement
    10  that the voter must complete a new ballot. The state board of  elections
    11  is  authorized  to  promulgate  rules  and regulations necessary for the
    12  implementation of this paragraph.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2021.  Effective immediate-
    14  ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal  of  any  rule  or  regulation
    15  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
    16  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13462-01-9