Assembly Bill A1351

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the study of the use of blockchain technology in elections

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A1351 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6036
Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Elections
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A8792
2021-2022: A4332
2023-2024: A2561

2019-A1351 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the state board of elections to study and evaluate the use of blockchain technology to protect voter records and election results.

2019-A1351 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1351
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. VANEL, WRIGHT, MOSLEY, BARRON, PICHARDO, SIMON,
   BLAKE, BICHOTTE, RIVERA, RA, NIOU, HUNTER, JEAN-PIERRE, HYNDMAN, RAIA,
   ARROYO, TAYLOR, SMITH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  DenDEKKER  --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT  directing  the  study  of  the  use of blockchain technology to
   protect voter records and election results
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. a. The state board of elections, in consultation with, and
 using data collected by, the office of information technology  services,
 shall  study  and  evaluate  the use of blockchain technology to protect
 voter records and election results.
   b. For purposes  of  this  act,  "blockchain  technology"  shall  mean
 distributed  ledger  technology  that uses a distributed, decentralized,
 shared and replicated ledger, which may be public  or  private,  permis-
 sioned  or  permissionless,  or  driven by tokenized crypto economics or
 tokenless. The data on the ledger is  protected  with  cryptography,  is
 immutable and auditable and provides an uncensored truth.
   §  2. No later than one year after the effective date of this act, the
 state board of elections shall submit to the governor and  the  legisla-
 ture  a  report  on the use of blockchain technology, as described under
 subdivision a of section one of this act. Such board shall consider  the
 use  of  blockchain technology in other formats and in other states when
 creating such report.
   § 3. The state board of elections shall evaluate such  data  with  the
 assistance of experts in:
   a. blockchain technology;
   b. voter fraud;
   c. cyber security;
   d. voter records; and
   e. election results.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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