Bill Text: NY A02086 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2086 (Prior Session Legislation)

NY State Legislature page for A02086

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes the board of elections to provide special ballots to board of election employees anytime up to the close of polls on election day.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-02-08 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [A02086 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A02086-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2086
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 15, 2015
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       Introduced  by M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABINAN-
         TI, BUCHWALD, COOK, FAHY,  GALEF,  JAFFEE,  MOSLEY,  RIVERA,  ROBERTS,
         ROSENTHAL,  SCHIMEL, SEPULVEDA, STECK -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Election Law
       AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation  to  special  ballots  for
         board of elections employees
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 11-302 of the election law, as amended  by  chapter
    2  163 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S  11-302.  Special  ballots for board of election employees. A person
    4  who is an employee of the board of elections or who has  been  appointed
    5  to  serve as an inspector of elections, poll clerk or election coordina-
    6  tor at a polling place other than the one at which he or she  is  regis-
    7  tered to vote, may deliver to the inspectors of election of the election
    8  district in which he or she is registered, or to the board of elections,
    9  at  any  time  during the period in which an application for an absentee
   10  ballot may be so delivered pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, a
   11  written statement that he or she will be unable to appear at the polling
   12  place for such election district on the day of an election  because  his
   13  or  her  duties  as  an  employee of such board or as an inspector, poll
   14  clerk or election coordinator require him or her to  be  elsewhere.  The
   15  board of elections shall provide such voter a special ballot [not earli-
   16  er than two weeks before the election and not later than] ANY TIME PRIOR
   17  TO  the  close  of  the polls on election day, PROVIDED HOWEVER THAT THE
   18  DISTRIBUTION OF SUCH BALLOTS TO SUCH VOTERS SHALL  BE  TIMED  TO  AFFORD
   19  SUCH  VOTERS  SUFFICIENT TIME TO CAST SUCH BALLOTS PRIOR TO THE CLOSE OF
   20  THE POLLS ON ELECTION DAY.  Such cast ballots may  be  delivered  to  an
   21  office  of  such  board  of  elections or to any board of inspectors not
   22  later than the close of the polls on election day. Such ballots shall be
   23  retained at the board of elections and cast and  canvassed  pursuant  to
   24  the provisions of section 9-209 of this chapter.
   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.
                                                                  LBD06315-01-5