Bill Text: NY A10843 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the board of elections to canvass certain absentee ballots for elections held June 23, 2020, establishes a presumption that any absentee ballot received between June 23, 2020 and June 30, 2020 that does not bear or display a dated postmark was timely mailed and delivered.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-24 - referred to election law [A10843 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10843-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10843

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 24, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Simon) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law

        AN ACT directing the board of  elections  to  canvass  certain  absentee
          ballots for elections held June 23, 2020

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

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to  the  contrary,  an
     2  absentee ballot for any election held June 23, 2020, received by a board
     3  of  elections between June 23, 2020 and June 30, 2020 that does not bear
     4  or display a dated postmark shall be presumed to have been timely mailed
     5  or delivered, and shall be canvassed by such board for such election.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.








         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16951-01-0