NY State Senate Bill 2021-S305

Senate Bill S305

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the creation, consolidation, division, and alteration of election districts by the board of elections in the city of New York

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2021-S305 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Elections
Law Section:: Election Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §4-100, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2019-2020: S7982
2023-2024: S2309

2021-S305 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the creation, consolidation, division, and alteration of election districts by the board of elections in the city of New York.

2021-S305 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S305

SPONSOR: MYRIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the election law, in relation to the creation, consol-
idation, division, and alteration of election districts by the board of
elections in the city of New York

 
PURPOSE:

Authorizes the Board of Elections in the City of New York to create
Election Districts with up to four thousand (4,000) active registrants

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 4-100 of the
election law, as amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994 by adding a
provision allowing the city of New York to have election districts
containing no more than four thousand active registrants.

Section 2 provides for the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This proposal amends Section 4-100(3)(1) to provide that an election
district within the City of New York shall contain no more than four
thousand registered voters, rather than one thousand one hundred fifty
registered voters as currently provided. This change reflects pressing
need of the Board of Elections in the City of New York, which faces
increasing difficulties in identifying and selecting accessible poll
sites. The change in the number of voters in each election district,
also reflects the increased capabilities of the new optical scanner
voting system and brings the Election Law in line with the maximum
number of voters per scanner (4000) mandated by the New York State Board
of Election's Rules and Regulations Section 6210.1 9(b)(2)(a).

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

S7982 of 2019-20

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2021-S305 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    305
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MYRIE  -- 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  creation,  consol-
   idation,  division,  and alteration of election districts by the board
   of elections in the city of New York
 
   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  registrants
 (excluding  registrants  in  inactive status), EXCEPT IN THE CITY OF NEW
 YORK WHERE AN ELECTION DISTRICT SHALL NOT CONTAIN MORE THAN  FOUR  THOU-
 SAND  REGISTRANTS  (EXCLUDING  REGISTRANTS  IN INACTIVE STATUS), but any
 election district may be divided for the convenience of the voters.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02517-01-1

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