Bill Text: NY A02593 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2593

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires at least one form of electronic means to verify voter registration at every polling place.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to election law [A02593 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02593-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2593

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring at least  one
          form of electronic means to verify voter registration at every polling
          place

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 8-302  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  section  8 of part XX of chapter 55 of the laws of 2019, is
     3  amended and a new subdivision 1-a is added to read as follows:
     4    1-a. At all elections held pursuant to the provisions of this chapter,
     5  at least one form of electronic verification of voter registration shall
     6  be utilized.
     7    2. The voter shall give the voter's name  and  the  voter's  residence
     8  address to the inspectors. An inspector shall then loudly and distinctly
     9  announce the name and residence of the voter and verify such through the
    10  electronic means required under subdivision one-a of this section.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06241-01-3