Bill Text: NY A06589 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to making electronic ballot images and cast vote records public records of the board of elections upon request.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to election law [A06589 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06589-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6589--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 19, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GALEF, ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Election  Law  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to availability of elec-
          tronic ballot images

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 3-222 of the election law, as
     2  amended by chapter 169 of the laws  of  2011,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  Except  as  hereinafter  provided, removable memory cards or other
     5  similar electronic media shall remain sealed against  reuse  until  such
     6  time  as  the  information  stored on such media has been preserved in a
     7  manner consistent with procedures developed and distributed by the state
     8  board of elections. Provided, however, that: (i) the information  stored
     9  on  such  memory card or other similar electronic media and all the data
    10  and figures therein may be examined upon the order of any court or judge
    11  of competent jurisdiction or may be  examined  at  the  direction  of  a
    12  committee  of  the  senate  or  assembly  to investigate and report upon
    13  contested elections of members of the legislature voted for by  the  use
    14  of  voting  machines  utilizing  such electronic media and such data and
    15  such figures examined by such committee in the presence of  the  officer
    16  having the custody of voting machines and electronic media; and (ii) the
    17  electronically  rendered  image  of  each  cast  ballot produced by each
    18  ballot scanner used at an election and the cast vote record  that  shows
    19  how  the  ballot  image  was interpreted shall be copied from the memory
    20  cards or other similar electronic media by the  board  of  elections  no
    21  later  than  one  week  after  such election, and such copied electronic
    22  images of cast ballots and the cast vote records shall be public records
    23  of the board of elections available upon request.
    24    § 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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