Bill Text: NY S01513 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes provisions relating to the joint nomination of candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor; provides candidates be designated jointly either by the state committee or by petition; provides said petition will be valid only if it jointly designates both candidates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S01513 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01513-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1513

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sens. GRIFFO, BORRELLO -- 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 the joint nomination of
          candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivisions  1, 2 and 5 of section 6-104 of the election
     2  law are amended to read as follows:
     3    1. Party designation of a candidate for nomination for any  office  to
     4  be  filled  by the voters of the entire state shall be made by the state
     5  committee. Candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant  gover-
     6  nor shall be designated jointly by a single vote of such committee.
     7    2.  The  state  committee  shall make a decision by majority vote. The
     8  person or persons receiving the  majority  vote  shall  be  the  party's
     9  designated candidate or pair of candidates for nomination, and all other
    10  persons  or pairs of persons who shall have received twenty-five percent
    11  or more of the vote cast on any ballot shall  have  the  right  to  make
    12  written  demand, duly acknowledged, to the state board of elections that
    13  their names appear on the primary ballot as candidates  for  such  nomi-
    14  nation.   Such demand shall be made not later than seven days after such
    15  meeting and may be withdrawn in the same  manner  within  fourteen  days
    16  after such meeting.
    17    5.  Enrolled members of the party may make other designations by peti-
    18  tion for [a member] members of the same party. A petition designating  a
    19  candidate  for  the  office  of governor or lieutenant governor shall be
    20  valid only if such petition jointly designates candidates for both  such
    21  offices on such petition.
    22    §  2. Subdivision 1 of section 7-114 of the election law is amended by
    23  adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
    24    (d) With respect to candidates for the offices of governor  and  lieu-
    25  tenant  governor,  ballots  shall be printed so that the names of candi-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  dates for both offices who were designated jointly shall appear  in  the
     2  same  row or column, with the name of the candidate for governor appear-
     3  ing first and the ballot shall be so  adjusted  that  both  offices  are
     4  voted for jointly and have but one designating letter or number.
     5    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.