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                                 3119--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 22, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on  Election  Law  --  recommitted to the Committee on Election Law in
  accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
  amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
  tee

AN ACT to amend the election law, in  relation  to  absentee  voting  in
  nursing homes and senior citizen residences

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 8-407  of  the  election  law,  as
added  by chapter 296 of the laws of 1988, is amended and a new subdivi-
sion 10-a is added to read as follows:
  5. The board of elections shall deliver to each  board  of  inspectors
all the absentee ballots in the custody of such board of elections which
are addressed to residents of the facilities which such board of inspec-
tors  is  assigned  to attend, together with AN ADDITIONAL SUPPLY OF THE
APPROPRIATE ABSENTEE BALLOTS FOR THE  ELECTION  DISTRICT  IN  WHICH  THE
FACILITY  IS LOCATED, ABSENTEE BALLOT ENVELOPES, APPLICATIONS FOR ABSEN-
TEE BALLOTS, one or more portable voting booths of a  type  approved  by
the  state  board  of elections and such other supplies as such board of
inspectors will require to discharge its duties properly.
  10-A. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 8-402 OF  THIS  TITLE,
THE  BOARD  OF  INSPECTORS  SHALL DELIVER AN APPLICATION FOR AN ABSENTEE
BALLOT TO ANY RESIDENT OF SUCH FACILITY FOR WHOM IT  DOES  NOT  HAVE  AN
ABSENTEE  BALLOT  AND  WHO  REQUESTS  SUCH  AN APPLICATION. THE BOARD OF
INSPECTORS SHALL ASSIST ANY SUCH RESIDENT  WHO  REQUESTS  ASSISTANCE  TO
COMPLETE  SUCH  APPLICATION. UPON RECEIVING A COMPLETED APPLICATION FROM
ANY RESIDENT WHO IS REGISTERED TO VOTE AT THE  FACILITY,  THE  BOARD  OF
INSPECTORS  SHALL FORTHWITH DELIVER AN ABSENTEE BALLOT AND BALLOT ENVEL-
OPE TO SUCH VOTER IN THE  MANNER  PRESCRIBED  BY  THIS  SECTION.    WITH
RESPECT TO THE APPLICATION OF ANY RESIDENT OF THE FACILITY WHO IS REGIS-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07705-02-6
              

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TERED  TO VOTE FROM AN ELECTION DISTRICT OTHER THAN THE ONE IN WHICH THE
FACILITY IS LOCATED, THE BOARD OF INSPECTORS, IF  IT  DOES  NOT  HAVE  A
SUPPLY OF THE APPROPRIATE BALLOT, SHALL FORTHWITH OBTAIN THE APPROPRIATE
BALLOT  FROM THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS AND DELIVER SUCH BALLOT AND ENVELOPE
TO SUCH VOTER IN THE MANNER PRESCRIBED BY THIS SECTION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.