Bill Text: NY A01426 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act to amend the election law, in relation to military voters

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to election law [A01426 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A01426-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1426
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2009
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       Introduced by M. of A. WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Election Law
       AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to military voters
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 5-612  of  the  election  law,  as
    2  amended  by  chapter  200  of  the  laws  of 1996, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    3. Whenever a school district meeting or election  is  scheduled,  the
    5  board  of elections for the appropriate county or counties shall deliver
    6  the registration lists, indicating on such list, or on a separate accom-
    7  panying list, the names of those voters whose  registration  record  has
    8  been  marked  "permanently  disabled", THE NAMES OF THOSE VOTERS WHO ARE
    9  REGISTERED AS "MILITARY VOTERS" and, on a  separate  accompanying  list,
   10  the  names  of voters in inactive status who shall be challenged if they
   11  appear at the polls to vote, for the appropriate election  districts  or
   12  those  portions  of  the  election  districts  encompassing  the  school
   13  district to the appropriate officials of such school district as soon as
   14  possible upon request of the appropriate officials, but  no  later  than
   15  the  thirty  days  immediately  prior  to the regularly scheduled school
   16  district election, provided further, that such board of elections  shall
   17  deliver  no  later  than  ten days prior to each such special or regular
   18  school district election supplemental registration lists containing  the
   19  names  of  those  voters who have registered after delivery of the first
   20  registration lists and who are eligible to vote in such elections, indi-
   21  cating on such list or on a separate  accompanying  list  the  names  of
   22  those  voters  whose  registration  record  has been marked "permanently
   23  disabled" AND THE NAMES OF THOSE  VOTERS  WHO  REGISTERED  AS  "MILITARY
   24  VOTERS".
   25    S 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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