Bill Text: NY A04381 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the state board of elections to maintain on its official website electronic voter registration forms which contain the county board of elections' address.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to election law [A04381 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04381-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4381
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 30, 2015
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       Introduced  by M. of A. GALEF, GUNTHER, LUPARDO -- Multi-Sponsored by --
         M. of A. BUCHWALD, ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the  Commit-
         tee on Election Law
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election  law,  in  relation to county board of
         election addresses on voter registration forms available on the inter-
         net
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Section 5-210 of the election law is amended by adding two
    2  new subdivisions 5-a and 5-b to read as follows:
    3    5-A. THE STATE BOARD OF  ELECTIONS  SHALL  MAINTAIN  ON  ITS  OFFICIAL
    4  WEBSITE  ELECTRONIC VOTER REGISTRATION FORMS FOR USE BY AND DISTRIBUTION
    5  TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC, WHICH MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF  SUBDIVISION  FIVE
    6  OF THIS SECTION AND ALLOW THE FOLLOWING:
    7    (A) DOWNLOAD OF BLANK VOTER REGISTRATION FORMS; AND
    8    (B) COMPLETION OF THE VOTER REGISTRATION FORM ELECTRONICALLY, ON WHICH
    9  THE  RETURN  ADDRESS  OF  THE REGISTRANT AND THE MAILING ADDRESS FOR THE
   10  REGISTRANT'S COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS SHALL BE AUTOMATICALLY FILLED  IN
   11  FOR THE REGISTRANT BEFORE IT IS DOWNLOADED FOR SIGNATURE AND MAILING.
   12    5-B.  THE  STATE  BOARD  OF  ELECTIONS  SHALL MAINTAIN ON ITS OFFICIAL
   13  WEBSITE A COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS FINDER, WHICH PERMITS THE PUBLIC  TO
   14  ENTER AN ADDRESS WITHIN NEW YORK STATE AND BE PROVIDED WITH THE NAME AND
   15  ADDRESS OF THE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS FOR THAT ADDRESS.
   16    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   17  have become a law; provided, however, that  effective  immediately,  the
   18  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
   19  for the implementation of this act on its effective date  is  authorized
   20  to be made and completed on or before such date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00045-01-5