Bill Text: NY S07115 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to specification of objections to designating petitions, independent nominating petitions, certificates of nomination or ballot access document; standardizes requirements for specification of objections by removing authority of local boards of election to make their own rules.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-31 - PRINT NUMBER 7115A [S07115 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07115-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7115--A
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 29, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BOYLE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Elections  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election  law,  in relation to specification of
          objections to designating petitions, independent nominating petitions,
          certificates of nomination or ballot access documents
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 6-154 of the election law, subdivision 2 as amended
     2  by chapter 248 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  6-154. Nominations and designations; objections to. 1. Any petition
     4  or certificate filed with the officer or board charged with the duty  of
     5  receiving  it  shall  be presumptively valid if it is in proper form and
     6  appears to bear the requisite number of signatures, authenticated  in  a
     7  manner prescribed by this chapter.
     8    2.  Written objections to any certificate of designation or nomination
     9  or to a nominating or designating petition or a petition for opportunity
    10  to ballot for public office or to a certificate of acceptance, a certif-
    11  icate of authorization, a certificate of declination or a certificate of
    12  substitution relating thereto may be filed by any  voter  registered  to
    13  vote  for such public office and to a designating petition or a petition
    14  for opportunity to ballot for party position or a certificate of substi-
    15  tution, a certificate of acceptance  or  a  certificate  of  declination
    16  relating  thereto by any voter enrolled to vote for such party position.
    17  Such objections shall be filed with the officer or board with  whom  the
    18  original  petition  or  certificate is filed within three days after the
    19  filing of the petition or certificate to which  objection  is  made,  or
    20  within  three  days after the last day to file such a certificate, if no
    21  such certificate is filed except that if  any  person  nominated  by  an
    22  independent  nominating  petition, is nominated as a party candidate for
    23  the same office by a party certificate filed, or a party nomination made
    24  after the filing of such petition, the written objection to  such  peti-
    25  tion  may  be  filed  within  three  days after the filing of such party
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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