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                                  4186

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 29, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Election Law

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election  law, in relation to the canvassing of
  primary returns by the board of elections

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section 9-200 of the election law, as
amended by chapter 29 of the  laws  of  1983,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  2.  The board forthwith upon the completion of the canvass for members
of a state committee and delegates and alternates to a  national,  state
or  judicial  district  convention, shall transmit to the state board of
elections a certificate stating the name and residence of each member of
a state committee and delegate and alternate  elected  from  a  district
wholly within the jurisdiction of such board, except that, in respect to
a  judicial  district  convention  in the first, second, eleventh [and],
twelfth AND THIRTEENTH  judicial  districts,  the  board  of  elections,
instead  of transmitting such certificate, shall compile the roll of the
convention and transmit it to the chairman or secretary of the committee
which, by party rules, is empowered to fix the time  and  place  of  the
convention.   The board of elections shall send by mail to each delegate
and alternate elected a notice of his election. The certificate or  roll
of  the  convention shall list the delegates and alternates elected at a
primary in the order of the votes received by each  delegate  or  alter-
nate,  with  the  delegate  or alternate receiving the highest number of
votes listed first. Tie votes shall be indicated in a manner  prescribed
by  the  state board of elections. If there shall have been no contested
election for alternates, the names of the alternates shall appear on the
certificate or roll in the order in which their names  appeared  on  the
petition which designated them.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02253-01-5

              

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  S  2.  Section 9-202 of the election law, as amended by chapter 218 of
the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
  S  9-202.  Canvass  of  primary  returns  by state board of elections;
convention rolls. The state board of elections upon receipt by  it  from
boards  of  elections  of the tabulated statements of votes at a primary
election required to be filed with it shall proceed forthwith to canvass
such statements. Upon the completion  of  the  canvass  it  shall  make,
certify  and  file  in  its office tabulated statements of the number of
votes cast for all the candidates for nomination to each  public  office
or for election to each party position, and the number of votes cast for
each such candidate. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes
shall be the nominee of his party for such office or shall be elected to
such  party  position,  as the case may be, and the board, if requested,
shall furnish to the elected candidates a certificate of election.  From
such  certified  statements  of  the  votes for delegates and alternates
elected to a state or judicial district convention of any  party,  other
than  a  judicial  district  convention  in  the first, second, eleventh
[and], twelfth AND THIRTEENTH judicial districts, the state board  shall
forthwith  compile  the  roll  of  each such convention in duplicate and
transmit it, if for a state convention, to the chairman and secretary of
the state committee of the party, and if for a judicial district conven-
tion, to the chairman and secretary of the  committee  which,  by  party
rules,  is  empowered  to  fix the time and place of the convention. The
roll of the convention shall list the candidates elected at a primary in
the order of the votes received by  each  candidate  together  with  the
number  of  votes  received  by each such candidate. If there shall have
been no contested election for alternates, the names of  the  alternates
shall appear on the roll in the order in which their names appear on the
petition which designated them. The state board of elections shall tran-
smit  copies  of the certified statements of the votes for delegates and
alternates to a national convention of  a  party  to  the  chairman  and
secretary of the state committee of such party.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.