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.
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