Bill Text: NY S06925 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that certain cities and towns shall have early voting poll sites within their boundaries and, where practicable, that such sites shall be situated along public transportation routes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-09 - referred to election law [S06925 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06925-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6925

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    December 20, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BIAGGI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the location of polling
          sites for early voting in certain cities and towns

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (d)  of  subdivision 2 of section 8-600 of the
     2  election law, as added by chapter 6 of the laws of 2019, is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (d) Polling places for early voting shall be located so that voters in
     5  the county have adequate and equitable access, taking into consideration
     6  population density, travel time to the polling place, proximity to other
     7  early  voting poll sites, public transportation routes, commuter traffic
     8  patterns  and  such  other  factors  the  board   of   elections   deems
     9  appropriate;  provided,  however,  that in cities and towns with a popu-
    10  lation of more than fifty thousand but less than  one  hundred  thousand
    11  based  on  the  latest federal decennial census, each such city and town
    12  must have at least one early voting polling place within its boundaries,
    13  and, to the extent practicable, if such  cities  or  towns  have  public
    14  transportation  routes,  such polling place shall be situated along such
    15  transportation routes. The provisions of section 4-104 of this  chapter,
    16  except  subdivisions  four  and five of such section, shall apply to the
    17  designation of polling places for early voting except to the extent such
    18  provisions are inconsistent with this section.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



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