Bill Text: NY S09076 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Enacts the "Make Voting Easy Act"; requires the board of elections to designate at least one early voting polling place for every full increment of twenty-five thousand registered voters in each county; removes provision permitting a maximum of seven early voting polling places in larger counties and requires at least one early voting polling place in counties with fewer than twenty-five thousand registered voters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-10-30 - REFERRED TO RULES [S09076 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S09076-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9076

                    IN SENATE

                                    October 30, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. GIANARIS -- 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 enacting the "Make  Voting
          Easy  Act"  to  require that the board of elections designate at least
          one early voting polling place for every full increment of twenty-five
          thousand registered voters in each county

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

     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "Make Voting Easy Act".
     3    § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 8-600 of  the  election
     4  law,  as  added  by chapter 6 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
     5  follows:
     6    (a) The board of elections shall designate polling  places  for  early
     7  voting,  which  may  include  the offices of the board of elections, for
     8  persons to vote early pursuant to this title. There shall be  so  desig-
     9  nated  at  least one early voting polling place for every full increment
    10  of [fifty]  twenty-five  thousand  registered  voters  in  each  county;
    11  provided, [however, the number of early voting polling places in a coun-
    12  ty  shall  not  be required to be greater than seven, and] a county with
    13  fewer than [fifty] twenty-five thousand voters shall have at  least  one
    14  early voting polling place.
    15    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to any
    16  general, primary, run-off primary, or special election held thereafter.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17552-03-0
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