Bill Text: NY S04543 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends procedures for change of party enrollment to require post mark 25 days prior to a primary, general or special election.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S04543 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S04543-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4543
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 24, 2009
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       Introduced  by Sen. SQUADRON -- 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 change of enrollment
         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 5-304 of the election law, as
    2  amended by chapter 90 of the  laws  of  1991,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    3.  A change of enrollment received by the board of elections, SHOWING
    5  A DATED CANCELLATION MARK  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  POSTAL  SERVICE,  OR
    6  CONTAINED IN AN ENVELOPE SHOWING SUCH A DATED CANCELLATION MARK WHICH IS
    7  DATED  not  later than the twenty-fifth day before the [general election
    8  shall be deposited in a sealed enrollment box, which shall not be opened
    9  until the first Tuesday following such general election. Such change  of
   10  enrollment  shall  be then removed and entered as provided in this arti-
   11  cle] NEXT ENSUING PRIMARY, GENERAL, OR SPECIAL ELECTION, AND RECEIVED NO
   12  LATER THAN THE TWENTIETH DAY  BEFORE  SUCH  ELECTION,  OR  DELIVERED  IN
   13  PERSON  TO  SUCH  COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS NOT LATER THAN THE TENTH DAY
   14  BEFORE A SPECIAL ELECTION, SHALL HAVE SUCH CHANGE OF  ENROLLMENT  EFFEC-
   15  TIVE  FOR SUCH ELECTION. ENROLLMENT CHANGES SHALL BE ENTERED AS PROVIDED
   16  IN THIS ARTICLE AND WILL BE DEEMED TO TAKE EFFECT  ON  THE  TWENTY-FIFTH
   17  DAY  AFTER  SUCH  CHANGE  OF  ENROLLMENT  IS  RECEIVED  BY  THE BOARD OF
   18  ELECTIONS OR IF THE CHANGE OF ENROLLMENT, OR THE ENVELOPE CONTAINING IT,
   19  BEARS A DATED CANCELLATION MARK OF THE  UNITED  STATES  POSTAL  SERVICE,
   20  SUCH  CHANGE  SHALL  BE ENTERED AND WILL BE DEEMED TO TAKE EFFECT ON THE
   21  TWENTY-FIFTH DAY AFTER THE DATE OF  SUCH  MARK,  WHICHEVER  IS  EARLIER;
   22  EXCEPT  THAT  NO  CHANGE  WILL TAKE EFFECT SOONER THAN THE TWENTIETH DAY
   23  AFTER THE RECEIPT OF SUCH CHANGE OF ENROLLMENT BY THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS
   24  EXCEPT WITH REGARD TO SPECIAL ELECTIONS AS PROVIDED IN THIS SUBDIVISION.
   25    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   26  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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