Bill Text: NY S00945 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends election law to accurately reflect proper cross reference relating to the operational failure of a voting machine.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-15 - SIGNED CHAP.423 [S00945 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00945-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           945

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 9, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sen. GIANARIS -- 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  making  technical
          corrections thereto

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 9-211  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  763  of  the  laws  of 2021, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    6. Notwithstanding subdivision [four]  five  of  this  section,  if  a
     5  voting  machine  or  system is found to have failed to record votes in a
     6  manner indicating an operational failure, the board of canvassers  shall
     7  use  the  voter  verifiable audit records to determine the votes cast on
     8  such machine or system, provided such records were not also impaired  by
     9  the operational failure of the voting machine or system.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03006-01-3