Bill Text: NY A10724 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the boards of elections to provide a secure website through which voters can track their absentee ballot from the moment the local board of elections receives the request for a ballot until the moment the vote is counted.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-01 - referred to election law [A10724 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10724-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10724

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 1, 2020
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to absentee ballot track-
          ing

          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 8-414
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 8-414. Absentee ballot tracking. The state board of elections  shall
     4  assist county boards and the New York city board of elections to provide
     5  a secure website through which any registered voter who has submitted an
     6  application  for  an  absentee  ballot,  or who otherwise has a right to
     7  receive an absentee ballot, for an upcoming election  pursuant  to  this
     8  chapter  may  view  the current status of their absentee application and
     9  absentee ballot. Such website shall  not  require  users  to  create  an
    10  account.  Such  website  shall  indicate for each such voter whether the
    11  county or New York city board of elections has:
    12    1. received such voter's request for an absentee ballot,  if  applica-
    13  ble;
    14    2. approved or rejected such request, if applicable, and, if rejected,
    15  a brief statement of the reason for rejection;
    16    3.  mailed  or  delivered  an  absentee  ballot to such voter for such
    17  upcoming election;
    18    4. received such voter's completed absentee ballot for  such  upcoming
    19  election; and
    20    5. counted or rejected such voter's completed absentee ballot for such
    21  upcoming election, and, if rejected, a brief statement of the reason for
    22  rejection.
    23    § 2. This act shall be subject to appropriations required to cover the
    24  costs to develop and maintain the website.
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    26  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03028-01-9