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Jan 08, 2014 |
referred to election law |
Jan 09, 2013 |
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Assembly Bill A2040
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
KAVANAGH
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
William Colton
Sandy Galef
multi-Sponsors
Kevin Cahill
Karim Camara
Richard Gottfried
Earlene Hooper
2013-A2040 (ACTIVE) - Details
2013-A2040 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Provides additional opportunity for new registrant by mail to indicate choice of party enrollment where original choice was omitted or void, by requiring board of elections to notify registrant of ineffective enrollment and ineligibility to vote in a party primary and providing a place for the registrant to enroll or decline to enroll in a party by mail.
2013-A2040 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2040 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y (PREFILED) January 9, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH, COLTON, GALEF, STEVENSON -- Multi-Spon- sored by -- M. of A. CAHILL, CAMARA, GABRYSZAK, GOTTFRIED, HOOPER, MAGEE, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to failure of new regis- trants to enroll THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 5-210 of the election law, as amended by chapter 179 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows: 9. The county board of elections shall, promptly and in any event, not later than twenty-one days after receipt by it of the application, veri- fy the identity of the applicant. In order to do so, the county board of elections shall utilize the information provided in the application and shall attempt to verify such information with the information provided by the department of motor vehicles, social security administration and any other lawful available information source. If the county board of elections is unable to verify the identity of the applicant within twen- ty-one days of the receipt of the application, it shall immediately take steps to confirm that the information provided by the applicant was accurately utilized by such county board of elections, was accurately verified with other information sources and that no data entry error, or other similar type of error, occurred. Following completion of the preceding steps, the county board of elections shall mail (a) a notice of its approval, (b) a notice of its approval which includes an indi- cation that such board has not yet been able to verify the identity of the applicant and a request for more information so that such verifica- tion may be completed, or (c) a notice of its rejection of the applica- tion to the applicant in a form approved by the state board of EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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