Bill Text: NY A08340 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the preservation of ballots and records of voting machines; provides that lists of registered voters shall be maintained for two years.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-5)
Status: (Passed) 2014-08-11 - signed chap.263 [A08340 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A08340-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8340
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
December 18, 2013
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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 the retention of poll
books
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 3-220 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 163 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 6. All petitions, certificates, objections or papers filed or deposit-
5 ed with a board or officer before an election or primary and relating to
6 designations or nominations, and all registers, books, statements,
7 returns or papers so filed or deposited after registration, enrollment,
8 election or primary at which they were used or to which they relate, not
9 including, however, the voted, unused, protested, void or wholly blank
10 ballots, shall be preserved by such board or officer for at least two
11 years after the receipt thereof and until the determination of any
12 action or proceeding touching the same or in which they are ordered to
13 be preserved pending the action or proceeding and at the expiration of
14 such time they may be either destroyed or sold. Lists of registered
15 voters with computer generated facsimile signatures used in lieu of
16 registration poll records at any election shall be preserved until the
17 end of the [fourth] SECOND calendar year after the year of such
18 election. In all jurisdictions, the original statements of results made
19 by the state board of canvassers or a county or city board of canvassers
20 and any original record specifying the name of a person declared to have
21 been elected to a public office shall not be destroyed or sold but shall
22 be preserved, as part of the records of such board or officer, until
23 otherwise provided by law.
24 S 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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