Bill Text: NY S03045 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that if the board of elections determines that a person was entitled to vote it shall cast and canvass such ballot if such board finds that the voter substantially complied with the requirements of the election law; failure to provide previous address not deemed a fatal defect and ballot cast and counted.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-20 - approval memo.64 [S03045 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03045-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3045--B
            Cal. No. 711

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 1, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. COMRIE, GIANARIS, HOYLMAN, KENNEDY, MAYER, RIVERA,
          SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed  to  be
          committed  to  the  Committee  on Elections -- reported favorably from
          said committee, ordered to first and second report, amended on  second
          report,  ordered  to  a third reading, and to be reprinted as amended,
          retaining its place in the order of third  reading  --  ordered  to  a
          third  reading,  amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in
          the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to canvass of ballots cast
          by certain voters

          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 2 of section 9-209 of the
     2  election law is amended by adding two new subparagraphs (v) and (vi)  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (v) If the board of elections determines that a person was entitled to
     5  vote  at  such election, the board shall cast and canvass such ballot if
     6  such board finds that the voter substantially complied with the require-
     7  ments of this chapter.
     8    (vi) If the board of elections finds that the statewide  voter  regis-
     9  tration  list supplies sufficient information to identify a voter, fail-
    10  ure by the voter to include on the envelope the address where such voter
    11  was previously registered shall not be a  fatal  defect  and  the  board
    12  shall cast and canvass such ballot.
    13    § 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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