Bill Text: NY A03093 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the number and use of voting machines for village elections; requires villages who have not adopted a resolution pursuant to law to provide one voting machine for each eight hundred or fraction thereof of qualified voters in each election district.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-02-25 - approval memo.1 [A03093 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A03093-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3093--B 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 24, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMEL, LATIMER, GALEF, ENGLEBRIGHT, ABINANTI, SWEENEY, THIELE, PAULIN, STEVENSON, CROUCH, MURRAY, MONTESANO, GIGLIO, McENENY, LAVINE, WEISENBERG, JAFFEE, MAGEE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BLANKENBUSH, CALHOUN, CERETTO, CORWIN, FINCH, FITZPATRICK, GOODELL, GUNTHER, KATZ, P. LOPEZ, McLAUGHLIN, MOLINARO, OAKS, RABBITT, RAIA, P. RIVERA, SAYWARD -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the number and use of voting machines in village elections and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 15-114 of the election law, as amended by chapter 2 373 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows: 3 S 15-114. Number AND USE of voting machines. 1. Any village that HAS 4 NOT ADOPTED A RESOLUTION PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH C OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF 5 SECTION 15-104 OF THIS ARTICLE AND uses voting machines, INCLUDING LEVER 6 VOTING MACHINES, for village elections shall provide one voting machine 7 for each eight hundred or fraction thereof of qualified voters in each 8 election district, as such voters are defined in section 15-110 of this 9 article. 10 2. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO REQUIRE THE BOARD OF 11 ELECTIONS TO MAINTAIN THE CARE, CUSTODY OR CONTROL OF LEVER VOTING 12 MACHINES. 13 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 14 deemed repealed December 31, 2012. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04799-07-1