STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10844 IN ASSEMBLY July 24, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Dinowitz) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to casting and counting absentee ballots without postmarked dates within three days following the day of election The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 8-412 of the election law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 3 to read as follows: 3 3. Notwithstanding subdivision one of this section, in the event an 4 absentee ballot is received by mail by the board of elections in an 5 envelope that does not show a postmarked date of the United States 6 postal service, a cancellation mark of the United States postal service 7 or a foreign country's postal service, or a dated endorsement of receipt 8 by another agency of the United States government, and such absentee 9 ballot is received by mail by the board of elections not later than 10 three days following the day of election, such absentee ballot shall be 11 cast and counted. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD17002-01-0