Bill Text: NY S06742 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the preservation of ballots and records of voting machines; provides that lists of registered voters shall be maintained for two years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-29 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8340 [S06742 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S06742-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6742
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     March 5, 2014
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- 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 the retention  of  poll
         books
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 3-220  of  the  election  law,  as
    2  amended  by  chapter  163  of  the  laws  of 1994, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    6. All petitions, certificates, objections or papers filed or deposit-
    5  ed with a board or officer before an election or primary and relating to
    6  designations or  nominations,  and  all  registers,  books,  statements,
    7  returns  or papers so filed or deposited after registration, enrollment,
    8  election or primary at which they were used or to which they relate, not
    9  including, however, the voted, unused, protested, void or  wholly  blank
   10  ballots,  shall  be  preserved by such board or officer for at least two
   11  years after the receipt thereof  and  until  the  determination  of  any
   12  action  or  proceeding touching the same or in which they are ordered to
   13  be preserved pending the action or proceeding and at the  expiration  of
   14  such  time  they  may  be  either destroyed or sold. Lists of registered
   15  voters with computer generated facsimile  signatures  used  in  lieu  of
   16  registration  poll  records at any election shall be preserved until the
   17  end of the  [fourth]  SECOND  calendar  year  after  the  year  of  such
   18  election.  In all jurisdictions, the original statements of results made
   19  by the state board of canvassers or a county or city board of canvassers
   20  and any original record specifying the name of a person declared to have
   21  been elected to a public office shall not be destroyed or sold but shall
   22  be preserved, as part of the records of such  board  or  officer,  until
   23  otherwise provided by law.
   24    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13047-02-3
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