Bill Text: NY A09792 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the number of early voting poll sites in certain cities and towns and requires, where practicable, that such sites shall be situated along public transportation routes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-12 - referred to election law [A09792 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09792-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9792

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 12, 2020
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        Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to the number of polling
          sites for early voting in certain cities and towns

          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. There shall be so desig-
     7  nated at least one early voting polling place for every  full  increment
     8  of  fifty  thousand registered voters in each county; provided, however,
     9  the number of early voting polling places  in  a  county  shall  not  be
    10  required  to  be  greater  than [seven] ten unless required by any other
    11  provision of law, and a county with fewer  than  fifty  thousand  voters
    12  shall have at least one early voting polling place.
    13    In  cities  or  towns with a population of more than one hundred thou-
    14  sand, but less than one million based on the  latest  federal  decennial
    15  census, there shall be at least one early voting polling place for every
    16  full increment of fifty thousand registered voters in each such city and
    17  town;  provided,  however,  the number of early voting polling places in
    18  each such city and town shall not be required to be greater than eleven,
    19  and to the extent practicable, if  such  cities  or  towns  have  public
    20  transportation  routes, such polling places shall be situated along such
    21  transportation routes.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14367-05-0