Bill Text: NY S06215 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6215 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes a change of location of early voting polling places for certain special, primary and run-off primary elections when no voters of the municipality with the highest population within the county are eligible to vote.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-12 - SUBSTITUTED BY A6478 [S06215 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06215-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6215

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 15, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- 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  early  voting  polling
          places  for  certain special, primary and run-off primary elections at
          which no voters are eligible to vote

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraphs  (b),  (c) and (d) of subdivision 2 of section
     2  8-600 of the election law are relettered paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) and
     3  a new paragraph (b) is added to read as follows:
     4    (b) For any special, primary or run-off primary election at  which  no
     5  voters of the municipality with the highest population within the county
     6  are  eligible  to vote, the board of elections may, in lieu of having an
     7  early voting polling place in such  municipality,  designate  a  polling
     8  place  for  early voting in the municipality with the highest population
     9  within the county within which the voters are eligible to vote  at  such
    10  special, primary, or run-off primary election.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10429-02-1