Assembly Bill A7162

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the number and location of early voting polling sites

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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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2021-A7162 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8-600, El L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A9791

2021-A7162 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the number and location of early voting poll sites in certain counties.

2021-A7162 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7162
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 23, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to the number of polling
   sites for early voting in certain counties
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 2 of section 8-600 of the
 election law, as added by chapter 6 of the laws of 2019, is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   (a)  The  board  of elections shall designate polling places for early
 voting, which may include the offices of the  board  of  elections,  for
 persons  to  vote early pursuant to this title. There shall be so desig-
 nated at least one early voting polling place for every  full  increment
 of  fifty  thousand registered voters in each county; provided, however,
 the number of early voting polling places  in  a  county  shall  not  be
 required  to  be  greater  than [seven] TEN UNLESS REQUIRED BY ANY OTHER
 PROVISION OF LAW, and PROVIDED FURTHER THAT a  county  with  fewer  than
 fifty  thousand  voters  shall  have  at  least one early voting polling
 place; AND PROVIDED FURTHER THAT IN COUNTIES WITH A  POPULATION  OF  ONE
 MILLION  TWO  HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND OR MORE BASED ON THE LATEST FEDERAL
 DECENNIAL CENSUS, BUT OUTSIDE CITIES WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR
 MORE BASED ON THE LATEST FEDERAL DECENNIAL CENSUS, EACH TOWN AND CITY IN
 SUCH COUNTIES SHALL HAVE AT LEAST ONE POLLING PLACE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01512-01-1

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