Bill Text: NY A06478 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes a change of location of early voting polling places for certain special, primary and run-off primary elections when no voters of the municipality with the highest population within the county are eligible to vote.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-21 - signed chap.110 [A06478 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A06478-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6478 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 18, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to early voting polling places for certain special, primary and run-off primary elections at which no voters are eligible to vote The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) of subdivision 2 of section 2 8-600 of the election law are relettered paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) and 3 a new paragraph (b) is added to read as follows: 4 (b) For any special, primary or run-off primary election at which no 5 voters of the municipality with the highest population within the county 6 are eligible to vote, the board of elections may, in lieu of having an 7 early voting polling place in such municipality, designate a polling 8 place for early voting in the municipality with the highest population 9 within the county within which the voters are eligible to vote at such 10 special, primary, or run-off primary election. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10429-02-1
