Bill Text: NY S00518 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 518 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to the number and location of early voting poll sites in certain counties.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S00518 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00518-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         518--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  KAPLAN,  BROOKS, THOMAS -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and  when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on
          Elections  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the number  of  polling
          sites for early voting in certain counties

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2  of  section  8-600  of  the
     2  election  law,  as amended by chapter 74 of the laws of 2021, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a) The board of elections shall designate polling  places  for  early
     5  voting,  which  may  include  the offices of the board of elections, for
     6  persons to vote early pursuant to this title;  provided,  however,  that
     7  the municipality with the highest population in each county based on the
     8  latest  federal decennial census, or the county seat in Washington coun-
     9  ty, shall have at least one polling place designated for  early  voting,
    10  and  to the extent practicable if such municipality has public transpor-
    11  tation routes, such polling place shall be situated along such transpor-
    12  tation routes. There shall be so designated at least  one  early  voting
    13  polling  place  for  every  full  increment of fifty thousand registered
    14  voters in each county; provided, however, the  number  of  early  voting
    15  polling  places in a county shall not be required to be greater than ten
    16  unless required by any other provision of law, and provided further that
    17  a county with fewer than fifty thousand voters shall have at  least  one
    18  early voting polling place; and provided further that in counties with a
    19  population  of  one  million two hundred fifty thousand or more based on
    20  the latest federal decennial census, but outside  cities  with  a  popu-
    21  lation  of  one  million  or  more based on the latest federal decennial
    22  census, each town and city in such counties  shall  have  at  least  one
    23  polling place.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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