Bill Text: NY A00876 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 876

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to empowering the commissioner of a board of elections to order a voting machine audit upon a finding of discrepancies.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to election law [A00876 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00876-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           876

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. PAULIN, REYES, RIVERA, SAYEGH, SIMON, DeSTEFANO,
          BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to empowering the  commis-
          sioner  of a board of elections to order a voting machine audit upon a
          finding of discrepancies

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section 9-211 of the election law, as
     2  amended by chapter 763 of the laws  of  2021,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    4.  The state board of elections shall, in accordance with subdivision
     5  four of section 3-100 of this chapter, promulgate regulations establish-
     6  ing a uniform statewide standard to be used by boards  of  elections  to
     7  determine  when  a  discrepancy between the audit tallies and the voting
     8  machine or system tallies  shall  require  a  further  voter  verifiable
     9  record  audit  of  additional  voting  machines or systems or a complete
    10  audit of all machines or systems within the jurisdiction of a  board  of
    11  elections.  Any  commissioner of a board of elections shall be empowered
    12  to order that any such  audit  shall  be  conducted  whenever  any  such
    13  discrepancy exists.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




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