Bill Text: NY A09420 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires paper ballots have a box, oval or other marking area that the voter may intentionally fill in to alert the voting system that any and all undervotes on the ballot have been done so intentionally; allows the system to cast the ballot without returning an "undervote error message" to the voter.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-09 - held for consideration in election law [A09420 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A09420-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 6, 2010
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       Introduced  by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Election Law
       AN ACT to amend the election law, in  relation  to  the  form  of  paper
         ballots
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 7-106 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
    2  new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
    3    11. BALLOTS SHALL PROVIDE FOR A BOX, OVAL OR OTHER MARKING AREA, WHICH
    4  WHEN FILLED IN BY A VOTER, SHALL BE RECOGNIZED BY THE VOTING SYSTEM AS A
    5  DIRECTIVE  FROM  THE  VOTER INDICATING THAT ANY RACES ON THE BALLOT THAT
    6  HAVE BEEN UNDERVOTED HAVE BEEN SO UNDERVOTED DELIBERATELY, AND AS  SUCH,
    7  THE  VOTING  SYSTEM  SHALL  NOT PRODUCE AN UNDERVOTE ERROR NOTICE TO THE
    8  VOTER.
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10548-01-9