Bill Text: NY A01351 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1351 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Directs the state board of elections to study and evaluate the use of blockchain technology to protect voter records and election results.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to election law [A01351 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01351-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          1351
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 15, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. VANEL, WRIGHT, MOSLEY, BARRON, PICHARDO, SIMON,
          BLAKE, BICHOTTE, RIVERA, RA, NIOU, HUNTER, JEAN-PIERRE, HYNDMAN, RAIA,
          ARROYO, TAYLOR, SMITH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  DenDEKKER  --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
        AN  ACT  directing  the  study  of  the  use of blockchain technology to
          protect voter records and election results
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. a. The state board of elections, in consultation with, and
     2  using data collected by, the office of information technology  services,
     3  shall  study  and  evaluate  the use of blockchain technology to protect
     4  voter records and election results.
     5    b. For purposes  of  this  act,  "blockchain  technology"  shall  mean
     6  distributed  ledger  technology  that uses a distributed, decentralized,
     7  shared and replicated ledger, which may be public  or  private,  permis-
     8  sioned  or  permissionless,  or  driven by tokenized crypto economics or
     9  tokenless. The data on the ledger is  protected  with  cryptography,  is
    10  immutable and auditable and provides an uncensored truth.
    11    §  2. No later than one year after the effective date of this act, the
    12  state board of elections shall submit to the governor and  the  legisla-
    13  ture  a  report  on the use of blockchain technology, as described under
    14  subdivision a of section one of this act. Such board shall consider  the
    15  use  of  blockchain technology in other formats and in other states when
    16  creating such report.
    17    § 3. The state board of elections shall evaluate such  data  with  the
    18  assistance of experts in:
    19    a. blockchain technology;
    20    b. voter fraud;
    21    c. cyber security;
    22    d. voter records; and
    23    e. election results.
    24    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01271-01-9