Bill Text: NY S06886 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires electors to vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidate who received the highest number of votes in the state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-23 - ordered to third reading rules cal.327 [S06886 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S06886-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6886--D 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE December 4, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recom- mitted to the Committee on Elections in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring electors to vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidate who received the highest number of votes in the state; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 12-106 of the election law is amended to read as 2 follows: 3 § 12-106. Electoral college; vote of the electors. 1. Immediately 4 after the organization of the electoral college, the electors shall then 5 and there vote by ballot for president and vice president, but no elec- 6 tor shall vote for more than one person who is a resident of this state. 7 They shall name in separate ballots the persons voted for as president 8 and vice president. They shall make and sign six certificates of all the 9 votes given by them, each of which certificates shall contain two 10 distinct lists, one with the votes for president and one with the votes 11 for vice president. There shall be annexed to each of the certificates 12 one of the lists of electors which shall have been furnished to them by 13 the state board of elections. They shall seal up the certificates so 14 made and certify upon each that the lists of all the votes of this state 15 given for president and vice president are contained therein. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14309-12-0S. 6886--D 2 1 2. Notwithstanding any other section of law besides title four of this 2 article, each elector shall cast his or her ballot for president and 3 vice president for the candidates for these offices who received the 4 highest number of votes within the state. Refusal or failure to vote for 5 the candidates for president and vice president who received the highest 6 number of votes within the state shall constitute a resignation from the 7 office of elector, and any such vote by an elector shall not be 8 recorded. The ballots used by the elector shall bear the name of the 9 elector. The remaining electors shall forthwith fill the vacancy in 10 accordance with section 12-104 of this title. Nothing in this subdivi- 11 sion shall be interpreted as modifying or repealing title four of this 12 article, the agreement among the states to elect the president by 13 national popular vote. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all 15 electors for all elections occurring on and after such date and shall 16 expire and be deemed repealed January 21, 2021.
