Bill Text: NY A01924 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires counties in the state to increase the amount of early voting polling places during presidential election years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to election law [A01924 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01924-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1924

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. D. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring  counties  in
          the state to increase the amount of early voting polling places during
          presidential election years

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2  of  section  8-600  of  the
     2  election  law, as amended by chapter 344 of the laws of 2020, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a) The board of elections shall designate polling  places  for  early
     5  voting,  which  may  include  the offices of the board of elections, for
     6  persons to vote early pursuant to this title;  provided,  however,  that
     7  the municipality with the highest population in each county based on the
     8  latest  federal  decennial  census shall have at least one polling place
     9  designated for early voting, and to the extent practicable if such muni-
    10  cipality has public transportation routes, such polling place  shall  be
    11  situated  along such transportation routes. There shall be so designated
    12  at least one early voting polling place  for  every  full  increment  of
    13  fifty  thousand registered voters in each county; provided, however, the
    14  number of early voting polling places in a county shall not be  required
    15  to  be  greater  than ten unless required by any other provision of law,
    16  and a county with fewer than fifty thousand voters shall have  at  least
    17  one early voting polling place.  During any year in which a presidential
    18  election  is  taking  place,  there  shall be so designated at least one
    19  early voting polling place for every full increment of fifteen  thousand
    20  registered  voters in each county for voting in such election; provided,
    21  however, that during any such year in which a presidential  election  is
    22  taking  place,  the  number  of  early voting polling places in a county
    23  shall not be required to be greater than  fifteen,  and  a  county  with

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05141-02-1
        A. 1924                             2

     1  fewer  than fifteen thousand voters shall have at least one early voting
     2  polling place.
     3    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
     4  manner as section 1 of chapter 344 of the laws of 2020, takes effect.