Bill Text: NY A07383 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows a board of election to design an alternative poll site staffing plan to conduct an election.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-22 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [A07383 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07383-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7383
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 25, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. BUCHWALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Election Law
        AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to alternative provisions
          for poll site staffing
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The election law is amended by adding a new section 3-500
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 3-500. Alternative poll site staffing plan. 1.  Notwithstanding  the
     4  provisions  of  title  four  of  this  article, a board of elections may
     5  design an alternative  poll  site  staffing  plan  to  more  efficiently
     6  conduct  an  election  in accordance with this section. Such alternative
     7  poll site staffing plan must be filed with the state board of elections.
     8    2. An alternative staffing  plan  shall  provide  for  at  least  four
     9  inspectors,  equally  divided among the major parties, to be assigned to
    10  each poll site, and all staffing must be likewise bipartisan. An  alter-
    11  native  staffing  plan  may  consolidate election district and poll site
    12  staffing functions to efficiently conduct an election pursuant  to  this
    13  chapter, provided the tabulation of votes by election district shall not
    14  be  impaired  unless consolidation of election districts for an election
    15  is otherwise permitted by this chapter, and such staffing plan  complies
    16  with 9 NYCRR 6210.19(c).
    17    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    18  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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