Bill Text: NY A07249 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the county seat in St. Lawrence county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-10 - held for consideration in election law [A07249 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07249-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7249

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 29, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. WALCZYK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to  requiring  the  county
          seat  in  Saint  Lawrence  county  to  have at least one polling place
          designated for early voting

          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 2 of section 8-600 of the
     2  election law, as amended by chapter 74 of the laws of 2021,  is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a)  The  board  of elections shall designate polling places for early
     5  voting, which may include the offices of the  board  of  elections,  for
     6  persons  to  vote  early pursuant to this title; provided, however, that
     7  the municipality with the highest population in each county based on the
     8  latest federal decennial census, or the county seat in Washington  coun-
     9  ty, or the county seat in Saint Lawrence county, shall have at least one
    10  polling place designated for early voting, and to the extent practicable
    11  if  such  municipality  has  public  transportation routes, such polling
    12  place shall be situated along such transportation routes. There shall be
    13  so designated at least one early voting polling  place  for  every  full
    14  increment  of fifty thousand registered voters in each county; provided,
    15  however, the number of early voting polling places in a county shall not
    16  be required to  be  greater  than  ten  unless  required  by  any  other
    17  provision  of  law,  and  a county with fewer than fifty thousand voters
    18  shall have at least one early voting polling place.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10370-02-1