Bill Text: NY A11151 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires electors to vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidates in a manner representing the plurality of votes in each congressional district.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-04 - referred to election law [A11151 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A11151-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11151

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 4, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Goodell,
          Brabenec, Giglio) -- read  once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Election Law

        AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to requiring electors to
          vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidates in a manner
          representing the plurality of votes in each congressional district

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  12-106 of the election law is amended to read as
     2  follows:
     3    § 12-106. Electoral college; vote of the electors.  Immediately  after
     4  the  organization  of the electoral college, the electors shall then and
     5  there vote by ballot for president and vice president,  but  no  elector
     6  shall  vote  for  more  than one person who is a resident of this state.
     7  Two electoral votes shall be given to the statewide winner and one elec-
     8  toral vote shall be given to each congressional district  based  on  the
     9  plurality of votes in such district. They shall name in separate ballots
    10  the  persons  voted for as president and vice president. They shall make
    11  and sign six certificates of all the votes given by them, each of  which
    12  certificates  shall  contain  two distinct lists, one with the votes for
    13  president and one with the votes for  vice  president.  There  shall  be
    14  annexed  to  each of the certificates one of the lists of electors which
    15  shall have been furnished to them by the state board of elections.  They
    16  shall  seal  up  the certificates so made and certify upon each that the
    17  lists of all the votes of this state given for president and vice presi-
    18  dent are contained therein.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  all
    20  electors for all elections occurring on and after such date.



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