STATE OF NEW YORK
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546
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
(Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to increasing the number
of registrants an election district may contain with the approval of
the county board of elections; authorizes increase of county committee
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 4-100 of the
2 election law, as amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 a. Each election district shall be in compact form and may not be
5 partly within and partly without a ward, town, city, a village which has
6 five thousand or more inhabitants and is wholly within one town, or a
7 county legislative, assembly, senatorial or congressional district.
8 Except as provided in paragraph b of this subdivision, election district
9 boundaries, other than those boundaries which are coterminous with the
10 boundaries of those political subdivisions mentioned in this paragraph,
11 must be streets, rivers, railroad lines or other permanent character-
12 istics of the landscape which are clearly visible to any person without
13 the need to use any technical or mechanical device. An election district
14 shall contain not more than nine hundred fifty registrants (excluding
15 registrants in inactive status) or, with the approval of the county
16 board of elections, not more than [eleven hundred fifty] two thousand
17 registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status), but any election
18 district may be divided for the convenience of the voters.
19 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 2-104 of the election law, as amended by
20 chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
21 1. The county committee of each party shall be constituted by the
22 election in each election district within such county of at least two
23 members and of such additional members[, not in excess of two,] as the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 rules of the county committee of the party within the county or the
2 statement filed pursuant hereto may provide for such district, propor-
3 tional to the party vote in the district for governor at the last
4 preceding gubernatorial election, or in case the boundaries of such
5 district have been changed or a new district has been created since the
6 last preceding gubernatorial election, proportional to the party vote
7 cast for member of assembly or in the event there was no election for
8 member of assembly, then proportional to the number of enrolled voters
9 of such party in such district on the list of enrolled voters last
10 published by the board of elections, excluding voters in inactive
11 status. In a county in which no additional members are provided for by
12 the rules of the county committee or the statement filed pursuant hereto
13 the voting power of each member shall be in proportion to such party
14 vote or, if the election district which such member represents was
15 created or changed since the last election for member of assembly,
16 proportional to such party enrollment. In a county in which additional
17 members are so provided for, on the basis of the party vote or enroll-
18 ment in election districts within such county, each member shall have
19 one vote. Each member of a county committee shall be an enrolled voter
20 of the party residing in the county and the assembly district from which
21 or in the assembly district containing the election district in which
22 such member is elected except that a member of a county committee who,
23 as a result of an alteration of assembly district lines, no longer
24 resides within such assembly district may continue to serve for the
25 balance of the term to which he was elected.
26 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.