Bill Text: NY S09802 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires boards of elections to notify state and county party committees and certain elected officials prior to a change of polling place.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-30 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S09802 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09802-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9802

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 30, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- 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  requiring  boards  of
          elections  to  provide  certain  notices  prior to a change of polling
          place

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  4-104 of the election law is
     2  amended to read as follows:
     3    2. (a) If the board of elections, after designating a  polling  place,
     4  and  after  sending  written notice of such polling place to each regis-
     5  tered voter, designates an alternative polling place, it must, at  least
     6  five days before the next election or day for registration, send by mail
     7  a  written notice to each registered voter notifying [him] such voter of
     8  the changed location of such polling place. If such notice is not possi-
     9  ble the board of elections must  provide  for  an  alternative  form  of
    10  notice  to  be  given  to voters at the location of the previous polling
    11  place.
    12    (b) When any board of elections is notified of the need to change  the
    13  location  of  a polling place, such board of election shall, within five
    14  days of receiving such notice, notify the following officials:
    15    (i) the chairpersons of all state party committees;
    16    (ii) the chairpersons of all county party committees in the county  in
    17  which such polling place is located;
    18    (iii)  the  member  of the state assembly representing the district in
    19  which such polling place is located; and
    20    (iv) the state senator representing the district in which such polling
    21  place is located.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14807-02-4