Bill Text: NY S05399 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that election workers shall be given special ballots any time up until the close of polls on election day.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-22 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S05399 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05399-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5399
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     May 14, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  FUNKE  -- 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  special  ballots  for
         board of elections employees
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 11-302 of the election law, as amended  by  chapter
    2  163 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S  11-302.  Special  ballots for board of election employees. A person
    4  who is an employee of the board of elections or who has  been  appointed
    5  to  serve as an inspector of elections, poll clerk or election coordina-
    6  tor at a polling place other than the one at which he or she  is  regis-
    7  tered to vote, may deliver to the inspectors of election of the election
    8  district in which he or she is registered, or to the board of elections,
    9  at  any  time  during the period in which an application for an absentee
   10  ballot may be so delivered pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, a
   11  written statement that he or she will be unable to appear at the polling
   12  place for such election district on the day of an election  because  his
   13  or  her  duties  as  an  employee of such board or as an inspector, poll
   14  clerk or election coordinator require him or her to  be  elsewhere.  The
   15  board of elections shall provide such voter a special ballot [not earli-
   16  er than two weeks before the election and not later than] ANY TIME PRIOR
   17  TO  the close of the polls on election day AND MAKE BALLOTS AVAILABLE AT
   18  THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS OR AT ANY TRAINING SESSIONS FOR ELECTION  EMPLOY-
   19  EES  AND APPOINTEES, PROVIDED HOWEVER THAT THE AVAILABILITY AND DISTRIB-
   20  UTION OF SUCH BALLOTS TO SUCH VOTERS  SHALL  BE  TIMED  TO  AFFORD  SUCH
   21  VOTERS  SUFFICIENT  TIME  TO CAST SUCH BALLOTS PRIOR TO THE CLOSE OF THE
   22  POLLS ON ELECTION DAY.  Such [cast ballots may be delivered to an office
   23  of such board of elections or to any board of inspectors not later  than
   24  the  close  of  the polls on election day] BALLOTS SHALL BE VOTED IN THE
   25  OFFICES OF THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS, AND RETURNED TO THE BOARD ON THE  DAY
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06315-03-5
       S. 5399                             2
    1  THEY  ARE  ISSUED.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CHAPTER, THE OFFICES OF THE
    2  BOARD OF ELECTIONS SHALL INCLUDE ANY FACILITY UTILIZED FOR THE  TRAINING
    3  OF  ELECTIONS  INSPECTORS AND OTHER ELECTION DAY PERSONNEL. Such ballots
    4  shall  be  retained  at  the  board  of elections and cast and canvassed
    5  pursuant to the provisions of section 9-209 of this chapter.
    6    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.