Bill Text: NY S04080 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4080

Introduced

Bill Title: Permits New York city voters to sign designating petitions for multiple candidates for the same New York City municipal public office or party position.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S04080 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04080-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4080

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 2, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. BRISPORT, SALAZAR -- 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 permitting New York
          city voters to sign designating petitions for multiple candidates  for
          the same New York city municipal public office or party position

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 6-134  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 709 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
     3    3.  (a)  If a voter shall sign any petition or petitions designating a
     4  greater number of candidates for public office or  party  position  than
     5  the  number  of persons to be elected thereto [his] their signatures, if
     6  they bear the same date, shall not be counted upon any petition, and  if
     7  they bear different dates shall be counted in the order of their priori-
     8  ty  of  date,  for  only  so  many  designees as there are persons to be
     9  elected.
    10    (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of  this  subdivi-
    11  sion,  a voter in the city of New York may designate a greater number of
    12  candidates for a New York city municipal public office or party position
    13  within the five counties of New York city than the number of persons  to
    14  be elected, with no limit to the number of designations.
    15    § 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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