Bill Text: NY S06581 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes counties to employ computer generated registration lists; updates the list of supplies to be delivered to poll sites.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06581 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06581-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6581
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 27, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  AKSHAR -- 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  authorizing  computer
          generated  registration  lists; in relation to the list of supplies to
          be delivered to poll sites
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  1-104 of the election law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 38 to read as follows:
     3    38. "Computer generated registration list" means a  printed  or  elec-
     4  tronic  list  of  voters  in  alphabetical  order  for a single election
     5  district or poll site, generated from a computer registration  file  for
     6  each  election  and containing for each voter listed, a facsimile of the
     7  signature of the voter. Such a list may be in a single volume or in more
     8  than one volume. The list may be utilized in place of registration  poll
     9  records,  to  establish  a  person's  eligibility to vote in the polling
    10  place on election day.
    11    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 4-128 of the election law, as amended by
    12  chapter 125 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
    13    1. The board of elections of each county shall provide  the  requisite
    14  number  of  official  and facsimile ballots, two cards of instruction to
    15  voters in the form prescribed by the state board of elections, at  least
    16  one  copy of the instruction booklet for inspectors, a sufficient number
    17  of maps, street finders or other descriptions  of  all  of  the  polling
    18  places  and election districts within the political subdivision in which
    19  the polling place is located to enable the election inspectors and  poll
    20  clerks  to determine the correct election district and polling place for
    21  each street address within the political subdivision in which the  poll-
    22  ing  place is located, distance markers, tally sheets and return blanks,
    23  pens, [black ink, or ball point pens with black  ink,]  pencils  [having
    24  black  lead],  or  other  appropriate marking devices, envelopes for the
    25  ballots of voters whose registration poll records are not in the  ledger
    26  or whose names are not [on] in the computer generated registration list,
    27  envelopes for returns, identification buttons, badges or emblems for the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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