Bill Text: NY A00928 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires electors to vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidate who were nominated by the political party that nominated the presidential elector.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-08 - substituted by s438 [A00928 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00928-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           928

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON, PAULIN -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Election Law

        AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to requiring electors to
          vote for the presidential and vice  presidential  candidate  who  were
          nominated by the political party that nominated the presidential elec-
          tor

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

     1    Section 1. Section 12-106 of the election law is amended  to  read  as
     2  follows:
     3    §  12-106. Electoral college; vote of the electors.  Immediately after
     4  the organization of the electoral college, the electors shall  then  and
     5  there  vote  by  ballot for president and vice president, but no elector
     6  shall vote for more than one person who is a  resident  of  this  state.
     7  They  shall  name in separate ballots the persons voted for as president
     8  and vice president. They shall make and sign six certificates of all the
     9  votes given by them,  each  of  which  certificates  shall  contain  two
    10  distinct  lists, one with the votes for president and one with the votes
    11  for vice president. There shall be annexed to each of  the  certificates
    12  one  of the lists of electors which shall have been furnished to them by
    13  the state board of elections. They shall seal  up  the  certificates  so
    14  made and certify upon each that the lists of all the votes of this state
    15  given for president and vice president are contained therein.
    16    Notwithstanding  any  other  section of law besides title four of this
    17  article, each elector shall cast his or her  ballot  for  president  and
    18  vice  president  for the candidates for these offices who were nominated
    19  by the political party that nominated the presidential elector.  Refusal
    20  or  failure  to vote for the candidates for president and vice president
    21  who were nominated by the political party that nominated  the  presiden-
    22  tial  elector shall constitute a resignation from the office of elector,
    23  and any such vote by an elector shall not be recorded. The ballots  used

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  by  the  elector shall bear the name of the elector. The remaining elec-
     2  tors shall forthwith fill the vacancy in accordance with section  12-104
     3  of this title. Nothing in this subdivision shall be interpreted as modi-
     4  fying  or  repealing title four of this article, the agreement among the
     5  states to elect the president by national popular vote.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.