Bill Text: NY A00267 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the state board of elections to create a system to allow a copy of the candidate and contest information contained on each ballot style submitted by each county board of elections to be accessible to the public via web.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-09 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [A00267 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A00267-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 267--C R. R. 124 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 5, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, BENEDETTO, BUCHWALD, ABINANTI, SEPULVEDA, GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported and referred to the Commit- tee on Rules -- ordered to a third reading, passed by Assembly and delivered to the Senate, recalled from the Senate, vote reconsidered, bill amended, ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the special order of third reading AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring the posting of sample ballots on a board of elections website The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 7-118 of the election law, as amended by chapter 2 157 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 7-118. Ballots; facsimile and sample. The board of elections shall 4 provide facsimile and sample ballots which shall be arranged in the form 5 of a diagram showing such part of the face of the voting machine as 6 shall be in use at that election. Such facsimile and sample ballots 7 shall be either in full or reduced size and shall contain suitable 8 illustrated directions for voting on the voting machine. Such facsimile 9 ballots shall be mounted and displayed for public inspection at each 10 polling place during election day. Sample ballots may be mailed by the 11 board of elections to each eligible voter at least three days before the 12 election, or in lieu thereof, a copy of such sample ballot may be 13 published at least once within one week preceding the election in news- 14 papers representing the major political parties. Each county board of 15 elections shall transmit electronically in a format to be determined by 16 the state board of elections, as it is available, a copy of the candi- 17 date and contest information contained on each of its ballot styles to EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01716-11-7A. 267--C 2 1 the state board of elections. The state board shall create a system to 2 allow such information to be made publicly available via its website, as 3 well as the website of any county board of elections, and in such a way 4 as to be accessible with a computer screen-reading program. One copy of 5 such facsimile shall be sent to each school in the county, providing the 6 ninth through the twelfth years of compulsory education, and in the city 7 of New York to each such school in the city of New York, at least one 8 week before each general election for posting at a convenient place in 9 such school. The board of elections shall also send a facsimile ballot 10 to any other school requesting such a ballot. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2019.
