Bill Text: NY A10590 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires audits by hand recount of voter verifiable audit records.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-05 - referred to election law [A10590 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10590-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10590

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 5, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Paulin) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to audits by hand  recount
          of voter verifiable audit records

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 9-211  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended by chapter 5 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  Within fifteen days after each general or special election, within
     4  thirteen days after every primary election, and within seven days  after
     5  every village election conducted by the board of elections, the board of
     6  elections  or a bipartisan committee appointed by such board shall audit
     7  the voter verifiable audit records from three percent of voting machines
     8  or systems within the jurisdiction of  such  board.  Such  audits  [may]
     9  shall  be  performed  [manually  or  via  the  use of any automated tool
    10  authorized for such use by the state board of elections which  is  inde-
    11  pendent  from  the  voting  system  it is being used to audit] by a hand
    12  recount. Voting machines or systems shall be selected for audit  through
    13  a random, manual process. At least five days prior to the time fixed for
    14  such  selection  process,  the  board  of elections shall send notice by
    15  first class mail to each candidate, political party and independent body
    16  entitled to have had watchers present  at  the  polls  in  any  election
    17  district  in such board's jurisdiction. Such notice shall state the time
    18  and place fixed for such random selection process. The  audit  shall  be
    19  conducted  in the same manner, to the extent applicable, as a canvass of
    20  paper ballots. Each candidate, political party or independent body enti-
    21  tled to appoint watchers to attend at a polling place shall be  entitled
    22  to appoint such number of watchers to observe the audit.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15111-01-0