Bill Text: NY A08597 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to construction of voting machines and systems.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-11 - print number 8597a [A08597 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08597-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         8597--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                   September 13, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, BUCHWALD, GALEF, ABINANTI, DICKENS, GOTT-
          FRIED,  PICHARDO,  REYES,  RIVERA,  SAYEGH, MONTESANO, MOSLEY, D'URSO,
          SIMON, COOK, DeSTEFANO, BLAKE, EPSTEIN -- read once  and  referred  to
          the  Committee  on  Election  Law  --  recommitted to the Committee on
          Election Law in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to construction of voting
          machines and systems

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs s and t of subdivision 1 of section 7-202 of the
     2  election  law,  as added by chapter 181 of the laws of 2005, are amended
     3  and a new paragraph u is added to read as follows:
     4    s. permit alternative language accessibility pursuant to the  require-
     5  ments  of  section  203  of  the  Voting  Rights  Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C.
     6  1973aa-1a) such that it must have  the  capacity  to  display  the  full
     7  ballot  in  the  alternative  languages  required  by the federal Voting
     8  Rights Act if such voting machine or system is to  be  used  where  such
     9  alternative  languages  are required or where the local board deems such
    10  feature necessary; [and]
    11    t. not include any device  or  functionality  potentially  capable  of
    12  externally  transmitting or receiving data via the internet or via radio
    13  waves or via other wireless means[.]; and
    14    u. be constructed so that, after the  paper  ballot  is  cast  by  the
    15  voter, the voting machine or system never passes the cast ballot under a
    16  printer  that  can print votes onto the ballot, including as a result of
    17  unauthorized, malicious and/or faulty software and/or firmware.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13202-02-0
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