Bill Text: NY A01104 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits fraudulent absentee ballot drop-off boxes or receptacles by making it a felony for anyone other than the board of elections to erect, display or maintain an absentee ballot drop-off box or receptacle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A01104 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01104-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1104

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. JACOBSON, SIMON, SEAWRIGHT, DINOWITZ, SILLITTI,
          LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to prohibiting  fraudulent
          absentee ballot drop-off boxes or receptacles

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

     1    Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new section  17-172
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 17-172. Absentee ballot drop-off fraud.  Any person or entity, other
     4  than the board of elections, who erects, displays or maintains an absen-
     5  tee ballot drop-off box or receptacle is guilty of a felony.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02140-01-3