Bill Text: NY A04582 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the order in which candidates appear on the ballot; requires that offices shall be listed on the ballot in descending order based on the size of the electorate and requires certain federal offices to be listed before state, county or local offices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to election law [A04582 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04582-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4582

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election law, in relation to the order in which
          candidates appear on the ballot

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  11  of section 7-104 of the election law, as
     2  added by chapter 411 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     3    11. [The offices appearing on all  ballots  shall  be  listed  in  the
     4  customary order] (a) The offices appearing on all ballots shall be list-
     5  ed  in  the  order  of  precedence,  as applicable to the offices up for
     6  election in any given year, as follows:    electors  for  president  and
     7  vice-president  of  the United States, governor and lieutenant governor,
     8  New York state comptroller, New  York  state  attorney  general,  United
     9  States  senator,  member of the house of representatives, New York state
    10  senator, member of the New York state assembly.  Any office which is not
    11  listed in this paragraph shall not appear on the ballot  in  a  position
    12  before or ahead of an office which is listed.
    13    (b)  Immediately following the offices in paragraph (a) of this subdi-
    14  vision, all other offices shall be placed upon the ballot in the custom-
    15  ary order; provided, further, that partisan offices  regardless  of  the
    16  size  of the constituency shall be listed before or ahead of nonpartisan
    17  offices and all candidates for judicial offices shall follow  all  other
    18  partisan offices.
    19    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    20  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.


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