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Senate Bill S8371

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the publication of certified copies of election results

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2017-S8371 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §9-212, El L

2017-S8371 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the publication of certified copies of election results; requires all determinations by county canvassing boards to be in writing and signed by the members of the canvassing board or a majority of them and filed and recorded in the office of the board of elections.

2017-S8371 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8371 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8371
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 3, 2018
                                ___________
 
 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  the  publication  of
   certified copies of election results
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 9-212  of  the  election  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  635  of  the  laws  of 1990, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2. All such determinations shall be  in  writing  and  signed  by  the
 members  of  the  canvassing  board  or a majority of them and filed and
 recorded in the office of the board of elections. [Except in the city of
 New York and in the counties of  Nassau,  Orange  and  Westchester,  the
 board of elections shall cause a copy of such determinations, and of the
 statements  filed  in  its  office  upon  which such determinations were
 based, to be published once in each  of  the  newspapers  designated  to
 publish  election  notices  and  the  official canvass. The statement of
 canvass to be published, however, shall not give the  vote  by  election
 districts  but  shall  contain  only the total vote for a person, or the
 total vote for and the total vote against a ballot proposal, cast within
 the county, or within the portion thereof, if any, in which an office is
 filled or ballot proposal is decided by the voters if the canvass of the
 vote thereon devolves upon the county board of canvassers.  Such  totals
 shall be expressed in arabic numerals.]
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15528-01-8

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