Bill Text: NY A08619 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows poll workers to be from any political party.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to election law [A08619 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08619-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8619

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     October 2, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to allowing  poll  workers
          to be from any political party

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 3-400  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  renumbered  by  chapter  9  of  the  laws of 1978, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3. Appointments to the offices of election inspector or poll clerk  in
     5  each election district, shall be equally divided between the major poli-
     6  tical  parties.  In the event that a major political party does not have
     7  enough qualified applicants to be an election inspector or poll clerk in
     8  a county or within the city of New York, appointments to the offices  of
     9  election inspector or poll clerk shall be qualified applicants which are
    10  not a member of another major political party such that the least number
    11  of  such  election  inspectors  or  poll  clerks  are  appointed in each
    12  election district.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    14  ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
    15  the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
    16  sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
    17  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.
                                                                   LBD13814-01-9