Bill Text: NY A00267 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           267
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 5, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Election Law
        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. The board of  elections
    15  shall  post  a copy of the sample ballot on its website as soon as it is
    16  available. One copy of such facsimile shall be sent to  each  school  in
    17  the  county, providing the ninth through the twelfth years of compulsory
    18  education, and in the city of New York to each such school in  the  city
    19  of  New York, at least one week before each general election for posting
    20  at a convenient place in such school. The board of elections shall  also
    21  send a facsimile ballot to any other school requesting such a ballot.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01716-01-7