Bill Text: NY S00242 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes portable polling locations for early voting; provides that a county board of elections may establish one or more portable polling locations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-08 - referred to election law [S00242 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00242-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           242

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to  establishing  portable
          polling locations for early voting

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

     1    Section 1. Section 8-600 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a.  (a) In addition to the designation of polling places required by
     4  subdivision two of this section, a county board of elections may  estab-
     5  lish  one  or  more  portable  polling  locations  for purposes of early
     6  voting, provided that the maximum  number  of  locations  a  county  may
     7  establish for such portable polling locations shall be determined by the
     8  state  board  of  elections  based  on  population.  The designation and
     9  location of any portable polling place shall be made no later than four-
    10  teen days before an election.
    11    (b) Locations for portable polling locations for early voting shall be
    12  selected to provide the maximum  number  of  voters  in  a  county  with
    13  adequate  access  to  early voting, taking into consideration population
    14  density, travel time to the polling  place,  proximity  to  other  early
    15  voting  poll  sites,  public  transportation  routes,  commuter  traffic
    16  patterns and such other factors the board of elections  deems  appropri-
    17  ate.  Such location or locations shall be included as part of the commu-
    18  nication plan developed by each board of elections pursuant to  subdivi-
    19  sion five of this section.
    20    (c) Locations for portable polling locations for early voting shall be
    21  operational for no fewer than three consecutive days.
    22    (d)  No portable polling location for early voting established by this
    23  subdivision shall replace or otherwise decrease the  number  of  polling
    24  places for early voting required by subdivision two of this section.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00246-01-3
        S. 242                              2

     1    (e)  For  the  purposes of early voting at portable polling locations,
     2  any ballots cast at such portable polling locations  shall  comply  with
     3  the provisions of subdivision six of this section.
     4    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     5  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.