Bill Text: NY A05576 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the number of registrants an election district may contain with the approval of the county board of elections; increases number on county committee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-20 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [A05576 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05576-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5576
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 10, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUSICK,  ABINANTI,  WEPRIN,  GALEF, SKOUFIS,
          KAVANAGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to increasing  the  number
          of  registrants  an election district may contain with the approval of
          the county board of elections; authorizes increase of county committee
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  a  of  subdivision  3  of section 4-100 of the
     2  election law, as amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    a.  Each  election  district  shall  be in compact form and may not be
     5  partly within and partly without a ward, town, city, a village which has
     6  five thousand or more inhabitants and is wholly within one  town,  or  a
     7  county  legislative,  assembly,  senatorial  or  congressional district.
     8  Except as provided in paragraph b of this subdivision, election district
     9  boundaries, other than those boundaries which are coterminous  with  the
    10  boundaries  of those political subdivisions mentioned in this paragraph,
    11  must be streets, rivers, railroad lines or  other  permanent  character-
    12  istics  of the landscape which are clearly visible to any person without
    13  the need to use any technical or mechanical device. An election district
    14  shall contain not more than nine hundred  fifty  registrants  (excluding
    15  registrants  in  inactive  status)  or,  with the approval of the county
    16  board of elections, not more than [eleven hundred  fifty]  two  thousand
    17  registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status), but any election
    18  district may be divided for the convenience of the voters.
    19    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 2-104 of the election law, as amended by
    20  chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
    21    1.  The  county  committee  of  each party shall be constituted by the
    22  election in each election district within such county of  at  least  two
    23  members  and  of such additional members[, not in excess of two,] as the
    24  rules of the county committee of the party  within  the  county  or  the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  statement  filed  pursuant hereto may provide for such district, propor-
     2  tional to the party vote in  the  district  for  governor  at  the  last
     3  preceding  gubernatorial  election,  or  in  case the boundaries of such
     4  district  have been changed or a new district has been created since the
     5  last preceding gubernatorial election, proportional to  the  party  vote
     6  cast  for  member  of assembly or in the event there was no election for
     7  member of assembly, then proportional to the number of  enrolled  voters
     8  of  such  party  in  such  district  on the list of enrolled voters last
     9  published by the  board  of  elections,  excluding  voters  in  inactive
    10  status.  In  a county in which no additional members are provided for by
    11  the rules of the county committee or the statement filed pursuant hereto
    12  the voting power of each member shall be in  proportion  to  such  party
    13  vote  or,  if  the  election  district  which such member represents was
    14  created or changed since the  last  election  for  member  of  assembly,
    15  proportional  to  such party enrollment. In a county in which additional
    16  members are so provided for, on the basis of the party vote  or  enroll-
    17  ment  in  election  districts within such county, each member shall have
    18  one vote. Each member of a county committee shall be an  enrolled  voter
    19  of the party residing in the county and the assembly district from which
    20  or  in  the  assembly district containing the election district in which
    21  such member is elected except that a member of a county  committee  who,
    22  as  a  result  of  an  alteration  of assembly district lines, no longer
    23  resides within such assembly district may  continue  to  serve  for  the
    24  balance of the term to which he was elected.
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.