Bill Text: NY S06349 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the county seat in Wayne 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 [S06349 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06349-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6349

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 23, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- 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  county
          seat in Wayne 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 Wayne county, shall have at least one  polling
    10  place designated for early voting, and to the extent practicable if such
    11  municipality  has public transportation routes, such polling place shall
    12  be situated along such transportation routes. There shall be  so  desig-
    13  nated  at  least one early voting polling place for every full increment
    14  of fifty thousand registered voters in each county;  provided,  however,
    15  the  number  of  early  voting  polling  places in a county shall not be
    16  required to be greater than ten unless required by any  other  provision
    17  of law, and a county with fewer than fifty thousand voters shall have at
    18  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.
                                                                   LBD10939-01-1