Bill Text: NY S07436 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that no board of elections shall commence a full manual recount of a particular contest unless and until such board has completed and announced the results of the recanvass otherwise required, for each applicable election district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S07436 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S07436-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7436 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 25, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MANNION -- 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 conditions for full manual recounts of ballots The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 4 of section 9-208 of the 2 election law, as added by section 1 of part JJ of chapter 55 of the laws 3 of 2020, is amended to read as follows: 4 (d) No board of elections shall commence a full manual recount of a 5 particular contest unless and until such board of elections has 6 completed and announced the results of the recanvass required by subdi- 7 vision one of this section, for each applicable election district. 8 (e) The result of the manual recount of ballots shall supersede the 9 returns filed by the inspectors of election of the election district in 10 which the canvass was initially made. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11604-01-3
