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