Bill Text: NY A08610 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires municipalities with the highest population in each county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-2)

Status: (Passed) 2020-12-15 - APPROVAL MEMO.48 [A08610 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08610-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8610--B

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     October 2, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. McDONALD, FAHY, D'URSO, ENGLEBRIGHT, GRIFFIN,
          JAFFEE, ROZIC, JACOBSON, DeSTEFANO, SEAWRIGHT, MOSLEY, THIELE,  GALEF,
          CRUZ,  BLAKE, STECK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LAWRENCE -- 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 --  reported  and  referred  to  the
          Committee  on Ways and Means -- reported and referred to the Committee
          on  Rules  --  Rules  Committee  discharged,  bill  amended,   ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election  law, in relation to requiring munici-
          palities with the highest population in each county to have  at  least
          one polling place designated for early voting

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2  of  section  8-600  of  the
     2  election  law,  as added by chapter 6 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (a) The board of elections shall designate polling  places  for  early
     5  voting,  which  may  include  the offices of the board of elections, for
     6  persons to vote early pursuant to this title;  provided,  however,  that
     7  the municipality with the highest population in each county based on the
     8  latest  federal  decennial  census shall have at least one polling place
     9  designated for early voting, and to the extent practicable if such muni-
    10  cipality has public transportation routes, such polling place  shall  be
    11  situated  along such transportation routes. There shall be so designated
    12  at least one early voting polling place  for  every  full  increment  of
    13  fifty  thousand registered voters in each county; provided, however, the
    14  number of early voting polling places in a county shall not be  required
    15  to be greater than [seven] ten unless required by any other provision of
    16  law,  and  a  county with fewer than fifty thousand voters shall have at
    17  least one early voting polling place.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2021.

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