Bill Text: NY S05039 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that an attorney licensed to practice in the state may serve as a poll watcher in any city or county in the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S05039 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05039-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5039

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 22, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. PARKER, BAILEY, COMRIE, KAVANAGH, KRUEGER, MAYER --
          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 watchers

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 8-500  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  418  of  the  laws  of 2019, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    5. Each watcher must be a qualified voter of the  city  or  county  in
     5  which  he  or  she is to serve. No person shall be appointed or act as a
     6  watcher who is a candidate for any public office to be voted for by  the
     7  voters of the election district in the same election in which the watch-
     8  er  is  to  serve.  Nothing  in  this  subdivision shall be construed as
     9  prohibiting any such candidate from visiting a  polling  place  in  such
    10  district on an election day while the polls are open, or an attorney who
    11  is a New York state resident and is licensed to practice law therein.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09249-01-1
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