Senate Bill S7436

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to conditions for full manual recounts of ballots

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Elections Committee

  • 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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2023-S7436 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Elections
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §9-208, El L

2023-S7436 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that no board of elections shall commence a full manual recount of a particular contest unless and until such board has completed and announced the results of the recanvass otherwise required, for each applicable election district.

2023-S7436 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S7436 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7436
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 25, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- 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  conditions  for  full
   manual recounts of ballots
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 4  of  section  9-208  of  the
 election law, as added by section 1 of part JJ of chapter 55 of the laws
 of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   (d)  NO  BOARD  OF ELECTIONS SHALL COMMENCE A FULL MANUAL RECOUNT OF A
 PARTICULAR  CONTEST  UNLESS  AND  UNTIL  SUCH  BOARD  OF  ELECTIONS  HAS
 COMPLETED  AND ANNOUNCED THE RESULTS OF THE RECANVASS REQUIRED BY SUBDI-
 VISION ONE OF THIS SECTION, FOR EACH APPLICABLE ELECTION DISTRICT.
   (E) The result of the manual recount of ballots  shall  supersede  the
 returns  filed by the inspectors of election of the election district in
 which the canvass was initially made.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11604-01-3

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