STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10844

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 24, 2020
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        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.
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