Bill Text: NY S02890 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the board of elections to provide email notifications to voters whenever they change the location of a polling place.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S02890 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S02890-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2890 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 25, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MYRIE, BROUK, GOUNARDES, KENNEDY, LIU -- 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 email notification of a change in location of a polling place The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 4-104 of the election law is 2 amended to read as follows: 3 2. If the board of elections, after designating a polling place, and 4 after sending written notice of such polling place to each registered 5 voter, designates an alternative polling place, it must, at least five 6 days before the next election or day for registration, send by mail and 7 email a written notice to each registered voter notifying him or her of 8 the changed location of such polling place. If such notice is not possi- 9 ble the board of elections must provide for an alternative form of 10 notice to be given to voters at the location of the previous polling 11 place. 12 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 4-104 of the election 13 law, as amended by chapter 438 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read 14 as follows: 15 (a) Whenever the number of voters eligible to vote in an election in 16 any election district is less than one hundred, the polling place desig- 17 nated for such district may be the polling place of any other district 18 which could properly be designated as the polling place of the first 19 mentioned district pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, except 20 that the polling place designated for any such district may be the poll- 21 ing place of any other district in such city or town provided that the 22 distance from such first mentioned district to the polling place for 23 such other district is not unreasonable pursuant to rules or regulations 24 prescribed by the state board of elections and provided that the total EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00794-01-3S. 2890 2 1 number of persons eligible to vote in such other district in such 2 election, including the persons eligible to vote in such first mentioned 3 districts, is not more than five hundred. The inspectors of election and 4 poll clerks, if any, of such other election district shall also act in 5 all respects as the election officers for such first mentioned districts 6 and no other inspectors shall be appointed to serve in or for such first 7 mentioned districts. A separate poll ledger or computer generated regis- 8 tration list, separate voting machine or ballots and separate canvass of 9 results shall be provided for such first mentioned districts, except 10 that if the candidates and ballot proposals to be voted on by the voters 11 of such districts are the same, the election districts shall be combined 12 and shall constitute a single election district for that election. 13 However, if the first mentioned district contains fewer than ten voters 14 eligible to vote in such election, there shall be no limitation on the 15 total number of persons eligible to vote in such combined district. If 16 the polling place for any election district is moved for any election, 17 pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision, the board of elections 18 shall, not later than ten nor more than fifteen days before such 19 election, mail, by first class mail, to each voter eligible to vote in 20 such election district at such election, a notice setting forth the 21 location of the polling place for such election and specifying that such 22 location is for such election only, and email the same notification to 23 any voter that has supplied the board with a valid email address. 24 § 3. Paragraph (k) of subdivision 5 of section 5-210 of the election 25 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (xiv) to read as follows: 26 (xiv) A space for the applicant to provide an email address to which 27 official correspondence from the state board of elections may be sent. 28 § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 29 have become a law.
