Bill Text: NY A01677 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that the board of elections shall transfer a registration and enrollment of a voter to wherever they move in the state, even if the voter moves to a new county.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to election law [A01677 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01677-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1677 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 16, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to voter registration transfers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 4, and 8 of section 5-208 of the election 2 law, subdivisions 1 and 8 as amended by chapter 200 of the laws of 1996, 3 subdivision 4 as added by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, are amended 4 and a new subdivision 9 is added to read as follows: 5 1. The board of elections shall transfer the registration and enroll- 6 ment of any voter appearing on a statewide voter list pursuant to subdi- 7 vision one of section 5-614 of this article for whom it receives a 8 notice of change of address to another address in the same county or 9 city or adjacent county or city, or for any voter who casts a ballot in 10 an affidavit ballot envelope which sets forth such a new address. Such 11 notices shall include, but not be limited to, notices received from any 12 state agency which conducts a voter registration program pursuant to the 13 provisions of sections 5-211 and 5-212 of this title, that the voter has 14 notified such agency of a change of address in the same city or county 15 unless the voter has indicated that such change of address is not for 16 voter registration purposes, notices of change of address from the 17 United States Postal Service through the National Change of Address 18 System, any notices of a forwarding address on mail sent to a voter by 19 the board of elections and returned by the postal service, national or 20 state voter registration forms, confirmation mailing response cards, 21 United States Postal Service notices to correspondents of change of 22 address, applications for registration from persons already registered 23 in such county or city or adjacent county or city, or any other notices 24 to correspondents sent to the board of elections by such voters. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05252-01-9A. 1677 2 1 4. If such application for registration from a voter already regis- 2 tered in such county or city or adjacent county or city also reflects a 3 change of enrollment, the board of elections shall treat such applica- 4 tion as an application for change of enrollment pursuant to section 5 5-304 of this article. 6 8. If the board of elections receives notice of a change of address 7 within such city or county or adjacent city or county from, or with 8 respect to, a person who it determines is not registered in such county 9 or city, it shall forthwith send such person a notice to that effect in 10 a form approved by the state board of elections at the new address set 11 forth in such notice of change of address, together with a voter regis- 12 tration form. 13 9. The state board of elections shall promulgate regulations as to the 14 procedures for transferring a voter from one county or city to another. 15 § 2. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (e) of subdivision 3 of section 16 8-302 of the election law, as amended by chapter 164 of the laws of 17 2010, is amended to read as follows: 18 (ii) He or she may swear to and subscribe an affidavit stating that he 19 or she has duly registered to vote, the address in such election 20 district from which he or she registered, that he or she remains a duly 21 qualified voter in such election district, that his or her registration 22 poll record appears to be lost or misplaced or that his or her name 23 and/or his or her signature was omitted from the computer generated 24 registration list or that he or she has moved within the county or city 25 or adjacent county or city since he or she last registered, the address 26 from which he or she was previously registered and the address at which 27 he or she currently resides, and at a primary election, the party in 28 which he or she is enrolled. The inspectors of election shall offer such 29 an affidavit to each such voter whose residence address is in such 30 election district. Each such affidavit shall be in a form prescribed by 31 the state board of elections, shall be printed on an envelope of the 32 size and quality used for an absentee ballot envelope, and shall contain 33 an acknowledgment that the affiant understands that any false statement 34 made therein is perjury punishable according to law. Such form 35 prescribed by the state board of elections shall request information 36 required to register such voter should the county board determine that 37 such voter is not registered and shall constitute an application to 38 register to vote. The voter's name and the entries required shall then 39 be entered without delay and without further inquiry in the fourth 40 section of the challenge report or in the place provided at the end of 41 the computer generated registration list, with the notation that the 42 voter has executed the affidavit hereinabove prescribed, or, if such 43 person's name appears on the computer generated registration list, the 44 board of elections may provide a place to make such entry next to his or 45 her name on such list. The voter shall then, without further inquiry, 46 be permitted to vote an affidavit ballot provided for by this chapter. 47 Such ballot shall thereupon be placed in the envelope containing his or 48 her affidavit, and the envelope sealed and returned to the board of 49 elections in the manner provided by this chapter for protested official 50 ballots, including a statement of the number of such ballots. 51 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 52 have become a law.
