Bill Text: NY S06754 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires municipalities with the highest population in each county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-09 - referred to election law [S06754 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06754-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6754

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                   September 30, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the election  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  munici-
          palities  with  the highest population in each 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 added by chapter 6 of the laws of 2019, is  amended  to
     3  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  shall  have
     8  at  least  one  polling  place  designated for early voting, and if such
     9  municipality has public transportation routes, such polling place  shall
    10  be  situated  along such transportation routes. There shall be so desig-
    11  nated at least one early voting polling place for every  full  increment
    12  of  fifty  thousand registered voters in each county; provided, however,
    13  the number of early voting polling places  in  a  county  shall  not  be
    14  required  to  be  greater than seven, and a county with fewer than fifty
    15  thousand voters shall have at least one early voting polling place.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    17  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13799-01-9