Bill Text: NY S07404 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that absentee ballots may be canvassed at the poll site on election day; provides that representatives of candidates, parties, or independent bodies may be present to observe the review of affidavit ballot envelopes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S07404 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07404-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7404

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sen. GIANARIS -- 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 canvassing of votes

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of  section 9-209 of the election law, as
     2  added by chapter 763 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
     3    5. Nothing in this section prohibits a representative of a  candidate,
     4  political  party,  or independent body entitled to have watchers present
     5  at the polls in any election district in the board's  jurisdiction  from
     6  observing, without objection, the review of ballot envelopes required by
     7  subdivisions two, three [and], four, and seven of this section.
     8    §  2. Subdivision 7 of section 9-209 of the election law is amended by
     9  adding a new paragraph (l) to read as follows:
    10    (l) The provisions of this subdivision shall apply notwithstanding any
    11  other provision of this chapter.
    12    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11559-01-3