Bill Text: NY A04188 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows delivery of an application for an absentee ballot to the board of elections through and on the day of the election.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to election law [A04188 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04188-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4188

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 1, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. JACOBSON, PAULIN, DARLING, ENGLEBRIGHT, DICKENS,
          GALEF, ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election
          Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to allowing delivery of an
          application for an absentee ballot to the board of  elections  through
          and on the day of the election

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2  of  section  8-400  of  the
     2  election  law, as amended by chapter 321 of the laws of 1988, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (c) All applications must be mailed to  the  board  of  elections  not
     5  later  than  the  seventh  day before the election for which a ballot is
     6  first requested or delivered to  such  board  not  later  than  the  day
     7  [before] of such election.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05949-01-1