Bill Text: NY S05450 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the county seat in St. Lawrence county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S05450 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05450-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5450--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 5, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Elections  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the election law, in relation to requiring the county
          seat in Saint Lawrence county to  have  at  least  one  polling  place
          designated for early voting

          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  8-600  of  the
     2  election  law,  as amended by chapter 74 of the laws of 2021, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a) The board of elections shall designate polling  places  for  early
     5  voting,  which  may  include  the offices of the board of elections, for
     6  persons to vote early pursuant to this title;  provided,  however,  that
     7  the municipality with the highest population in each county based on the
     8  latest  federal decennial census, or the county seat in Washington coun-
     9  ty, or the county seat in Saint Lawrence county, shall have at least one
    10  polling place designated for early voting, and to the extent practicable
    11  if such municipality has  public  transportation  routes,  such  polling
    12  place shall be situated along such transportation routes. There shall be
    13  so  designated  at  least  one early voting polling place for every full
    14  increment of fifty thousand registered voters in each county;  provided,
    15  however, the number of early voting polling places in a county shall not
    16  be  required  to  be  greater  than  ten  unless  required  by any other
    17  provision of law, and a county with fewer  than  fifty  thousand  voters
    18  shall have at least one early voting polling place.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10370-03-1