Bill Text: NY S03421 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the city of New York to establish and maintain an electronic voter registration transmittal system for New York city residents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S03421 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03421-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3421

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. MYRIE, GIANARIS, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, KAVANAGH,
          KRUEGER,  LIU,  RIVERA, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections

        AN ACT to authorize the city of New  York  to  establish  an  electronic
          voter registration transmittal system for New York city residents; and
          providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision  of  law,  rule,  regu-
     2  lation  or policy to the contrary, any municipal agency so authorized by
     3  local law of the city of New York may establish and  maintain  an  elec-
     4  tronic personal voter registration transmittal system for applicants who
     5  are  New  York city residents. Such system may be established before the
     6  establishment of any system otherwise authorized by law, and the  exist-
     7  ence  of  the  system  authorized by this section shall not be deemed to
     8  preclude New York city residents from  utilizing  any  system  otherwise
     9  authorized  by  law.  Completed  applications  that  are filed using the
    10  system authorized by this section, when  transmitted  to  the  board  of
    11  elections  in  the  city  of  New  York not later than the twentieth day
    12  before the next ensuing primary,  general  or  special  election,  shall
    13  entitle the applicant to vote in such election provided the board deter-
    14  mines  that  the applicant is otherwise qualified. Applications shall be
    15  processed by such board in the manner prescribed in by section 5-210  of
    16  the election law or, if the applicant is already registered to vote from
    17  another  address  in New York state, in the manner prescribed by section
    18  5-208 of the election law. Such board shall send the appropriate  notice
    19  of  approval or rejection as required by either subdivision 9 of section
    20  5-210 of the election law or subdivision  5  of  section  5-208  of  the
    21  election  law. Such system may utilize an electronic or manual signature
    22  that is in the custody of the department of motor  vehicles,  the  state
    23  board  of  elections,  any  other  agency designated by section 5-211 or

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 3421                             2

     1  5-212 of the election law, or any agency designated as  a  participating
     2  agency  or authorized to collect such signatures under section 1057-a or
     3  1057-f of the New York city charter, with the consent of the  individual
     4  that  produced  the signature. The online voter registration application
     5  utilized by such  electronic  personal  voter  registration  transmittal
     6  system  may  contain  such  minor,  non-substantive  variations  of  the
     7  requirements of section 5-210 of the election law with  respect  to  the
     8  format  and content of the application as may be reasonably necessary to
     9  facilitate the electronic collection, transmission, and storage of data,
    10  provided that the application shall include all of the  voter  registra-
    11  tion information required by such section.
    12    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately and shall be deemed
    13  repealed 90 days after the date that a statewide electronic voter regis-
    14  tration transmittal system, to be established  by  the  state  board  of
    15  elections pursuant to title 8 of article 5 of the election law, as added
    16  by part CCC of chapter 55 of the laws of 2019, is operational and acces-
    17  sible to residents of the city of New York. The state board of elections
    18  shall notify the legislative bill drafting commission upon the date that
    19  such  system  is operational and accessible in order that the commission
    20  may maintain an accurate and timely effective data base of the  official
    21  text of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of effectuating
    22  the  provisions of section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of
    23  the public officers law.