Bill Text: NY S01590 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the state board of elections to create a system to allow a copy of the candidate and contest information contained on each ballot style submitted by each county board of elections to be accessible to the public via web.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-24 - signed chap.410 [S01590 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01590-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1590 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SANDERS, BAILEY, BROOKS, KRUEGER, ORTT, SEPULVEDA -- 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 requiring the posting of sample ballots on a board of elections website The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 7-118 of the election law, as amended by chapter 2 157 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 7-118. Ballots; facsimile and sample. The board of elections shall 4 provide facsimile and sample ballots which shall be arranged in the form 5 of a diagram showing such part of the face of the voting machine as 6 shall be in use at that election. Such facsimile and sample ballots 7 shall be either in full or reduced size and shall contain suitable 8 illustrated directions for voting on the voting machine. Such facsimile 9 ballots shall be mounted and displayed for public inspection at each 10 polling place during election day. Sample ballots may be mailed by the 11 board of elections to each eligible voter at least three days before the 12 election, or in lieu thereof, a copy of such sample ballot may be 13 published at least once within one week preceding the election in news- 14 papers representing the major political parties. Each county board of 15 elections shall transmit electronically in a format to be determined by 16 the state board of elections, as it is available, a copy of the candi- 17 date and contest information contained on each of its ballot styles to 18 the state board of elections. The state board shall create a system to 19 allow such information to be made publicly available via its website, as 20 well as the website of any county board of elections, and in such a way 21 as to be accessible with a computer screen-reading program. One copy of 22 such facsimile shall be sent to each school in the county, providing the 23 ninth through the twelfth years of compulsory education, and in the city 24 of New York to each such school in the city of New York, at least one EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00515-01-9S. 1590 2 1 week before each general election for posting at a convenient place in 2 such school. The board of elections shall also send a facsimile ballot 3 to any other school requesting such a ballot. 4 § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2021.
