Bill Text: NY S04413 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes any qualified voter to request an absentee ballot and vote absentee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S04413 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04413-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4413
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 14, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- 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 authorizing any  quali-
          fied voter to request an absentee ballot
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 8-400  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter 63 of the laws of 2010, paragraph (c) as amended by
     3  chapter 375 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
     4    1. A qualified voter may vote as an absentee voter under this  chapter
     5  [if, on the occurrence of any village election conducted by the board of
     6  elections,  primary  election, special election, general election or New
     7  York city community school board district  or  city  of  Buffalo  school
     8  district election, he or she expects to be:
     9    (a)  absent from the county of his or her residence, or, if a resident
    10  of the city of New York absent from said city; or
    11    (b) unable to appear personally at the polling place of  the  election
    12  district  in  which he or she is a qualified voter because of illness or
    13  physical disability or duties related to the primary care of one or more
    14  individuals who are ill or physically disabled, or  because  he  or  she
    15  will be or is a patient in a hospital; or
    16    (c)  a  resident or patient of a veterans health administration hospi-
    17  tal; or
    18    (d) absent from his or her voting  residence  because  he  or  she  is
    19  detained  in  jail awaiting action by a grand jury or awaiting trial, or
    20  confined in jail or prison after a conviction for an offense other  than
    21  a  felony,  provided that he or she is qualified to vote in the election
    22  district of his or her residence] under any circumstance.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09393-01-7