Bill Text: NY A10746 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to ballots submitted in envelopes that are partially sealed or sealed with tape, paste, or any other binding agent or device.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-11-06 - print number 10746a [A10746 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10746-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                        10746--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 9, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  -- (at request of M. of A. Paulin,
          Simotas, Barnwell, Simon, Griffin) -- read once and  referred  to  the
          Committee  on  Election  Law  --  committee  discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to  ballots  submitted  in
          envelopes that are partially sealed or sealed with tape, paste, or any
          other binding agent or device

          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 3 of  section  9-209  of  the
     2  election law, as added by chapter 141 of the laws of 2020, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (a) Upon the board of elections determination at or before the time of
     5  canvass that an absentee ballot affirmation envelope is unsigned or that
     6  an  affirmation  ballot  envelope  signature  does not correspond to the
     7  registration signature or there is no required witness to a mark or that
     8  the envelope is returned without an affirmation envelope in  the  return
     9  envelope  or  that  an affirmation envelope is signed by the person that
    10  has provided assistance to the voter but is not signed or marked by  the
    11  voter  themselves  or  that the voter has failed to sign the affirmation
    12  envelope and someone else has signed the  affirmation or that  a  ballot
    13  envelope  is  partially  sealed, or sealed with tape, paste or any other
    14  binding agent or device, the board shall, within one day of such  deter-
    15  mination,  send  to the absentee voter's address indicated in the regis-
    16  tration records and, if different, the mailing address indicated on  the
    17  absentee  ballot  application,  a  notice explaining the reason for such
    18  rejection and the procedure to cure the rejection. The board shall  also
    19  contact the voter by either electronic mail or telephone, if such infor-
    20  mation  is  available  to the board in the voter's registration informa-
    21  tion, in order to notify the voter of the deficiency and the opportunity
    22  and the process to cure the deficiency.
    23    § 2. This act  shall  take  effect  immediately  and  shall  apply  to
    24  elections occurring on or after such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16406-05-0