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                                   2794
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 17, 2017
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  AKSHAR -- 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 increasing  the  number
   of  registrants  an election district may contain with the approval of
   the county board of elections; authorizes increase of county committee

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  a  of  subdivision  3  of section 4-100 of the
 election law, as amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is  amended
 to read as follows:
   a.  Each  election  district  shall  be in compact form and may not be
 partly within and partly without a ward, town, city, a village which has
 five thousand or more inhabitants and is wholly within one  town,  or  a
 county  legislative,  assembly,  senatorial  or  congressional district.
 Except as provided in paragraph b of this subdivision, election district
 boundaries, other than those boundaries which are coterminous  with  the
 boundaries  of those political subdivisions mentioned in this paragraph,
 must be streets, rivers, railroad lines or  other  permanent  character-
 istics  of the landscape which are clearly visible to any person without
 the need to use any technical or mechanical device. An election district
 shall contain not more than nine hundred  fifty  registrants  (excluding
 registrants  in  inactive  status)  or,  with the approval of the county
 board of elections, not more than [eleven hundred  fifty]  TWO  THOUSAND
 registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status), but any election
 district may be divided for the convenience of the voters.
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 2-104 of the election law, as amended by
 chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  The  county  committee  of  each party shall be constituted by the
 election in each election district within such county of  at  least  two
 members  and  of such additional members[, not in excess of two,] as the
 rules of the county committee of the party  within  the  county  or  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 statement  filed  pursuant hereto may provide for such district, propor-
 tional to the party vote in  the  district  for  governor  at  the  last
 preceding  gubernatorial  election,  or  in  case the boundaries of such
 district  have been changed or a new district has been created since the
 last preceding gubernatorial election, proportional to  the  party  vote
 cast  for  member  of assembly or in the event there was no election for
 member of assembly, then proportional to the number of  enrolled  voters
 of  such  party  in  such  district  on the list of enrolled voters last
 published by the  board  of  elections,  excluding  voters  in  inactive
 status.  In  a county in which no additional members are provided for by
 the rules of the county committee or the statement filed pursuant hereto
 the voting power of each member shall be in  proportion  to  such  party
 vote  or,  if  the  election  district  which such member represents was
 created or changed since the  last  election  for  member  of  assembly,
 proportional  to  such party enrollment. In a county in which additional
 members are so provided for, on the basis of the party vote  or  enroll-
 ment  in  election  districts within such county, each member shall have
 one vote. Each member of a county committee shall be an  enrolled  voter
 of the party residing in the county and the assembly district from which
 or  in  the  assembly district containing the election district in which
 such member is elected except that a member of a county  committee  who,
 as  a  result  of  an  alteration  of assembly district lines, no longer
 resides within such assembly district may  continue  to  serve  for  the
 balance of the term to which he was elected.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.