Bill Text: NY A08448 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to empowering the commissioner of a board of elections to order a voting machine audit upon a finding of discrepancies.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to election law [A08448 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A08448-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8448 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY July 8, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, BLAKE, ABINANTI, GOTTFRIED, PICHARDO, REYES, RIVERA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BUCHWALD -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to empowering the commis- sioner of a board of elections to order a voting machine audit upon a finding of discrepancies The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 9-211 of the election law, as 2 amended by chapter 515 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 3. The state board of elections shall, in accordance with subdivision 5 four of section 3-100 of this chapter, promulgate regulations establish- 6 ing a uniform statewide standard to be used by boards of elections to 7 determine when a discrepancy between the audit tallies and the voting 8 machine or system tallies shall require a further voter verifiable 9 record audit of additional voting machines or systems or a complete 10 audit of all machines or systems within the jurisdiction of a board of 11 elections. Any commissioner of a board of elections shall be empowered 12 to order that any such audit shall be conducted whenever any such 13 discrepancy exists. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13204-02-9