Bill Text: NY S04242 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides for the state board of elections to undertake a study of the feasibility for voting by mail, telephone and/or the internet; authorizes a pilot program for such voting during the study; requires a report to the governor and legislature.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S04242 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S04242-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4242 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 5, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, BAILEY, HOYLMAN, LIU, SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections AN ACT providing for the state board of elections to undertake a study on the feasibility of permitting voting by mail, telephone and/or the internet and to establish pilot projects relating thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The state board of elections shall undertake a study on the 2 feasibility of permitting voting by mail, telephone and/or the internet. 3 Such study shall include but not be limited to evaluation of the ability 4 of verifying votes by mail, telephone and/or the internet and the impact 5 on the number of the electorate voting in primary and general elections. 6 Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, at any 7 primary or general election during the undertaking of such study, the 8 state board of elections may provide a pilot program permitting voting 9 by mail, telephone and/or the internet. The state board of elections 10 shall submit such study including recommendations to the governor and 11 state legislature within twenty-four months of the effective date of 12 this act. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06740-01-9