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                                   6240
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 7, 2025
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 Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- 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 applications for regis-
   tration and enrollment of voters
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 5-210 of the election law,
 as amended by chapter 113 of the laws of 2023, subdivision  4  as  sepa-
 rately  amended  by  section  50 of part PP of chapter 56 of the laws of
 2022, are amended to read as follows:
   3.  Completed  application  forms,  when  received  by  any  board  of
 elections  and,  with  respect  to  application forms promulgated by the
 federal election  commission,  when  received  by  the  state  board  of
 elections,  [or  showing  a dated cancellation mark of the United States
 Postal Service or contained in an envelope showing such a dated  cancel-
 lation  mark  which  is not later than the fifteenth day before the next
 ensuing primary, general or special election,  and  received]  no  later
 than  the  tenth day before [such] THE NEXT ENSUING PRIMARY, GENERAL, OR
 SPECIAL election, [or delivered in person to such board of elections not
 later than the tenth day before such election,] shall entitle the appli-
 cant to vote in such election and to have the applicant's vote canvassed
 in accordance with this chapter, if the applicant  is  otherwise  quali-
 fied,  provided,  however,  such  applicant  shall  not vote on a voting
 machine until their identity is verified. Any board of elections receiv-
 ing an application form from a person who does not reside in its  juris-
 diction  but  who  does reside elsewhere in the state of New York, shall
 electronically forward such application form  to  the  proper  board  of
 elections  on the same day it is received. Each board of elections shall
 make an entry on each such form of the  date  it  is  received  by  such
 board.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   4.  Any  qualified  person  who has been honorably discharged from the
 military after the twenty-fifth day before a general  election,  or  who
 has  a  qualifying condition, as defined in section one of the veterans'
 services law, and has received a discharge other  than  bad  conduct  or
 dishonorable  from  the  military  after  the  twenty-fifth day before a
 general election, or who is a discharged LGBT  veteran,  as  defined  in
 section  one of the veterans' services law, and has received a discharge
 other than bad conduct or dishonorable from the military after the twen-
 ty-fifth day before a general election, or who has become a  naturalized
 citizen  after  the  twenty-fifth  day  before  a  general  election may
 [personally] register [at the board of elections in the county of  their
 residence]  USING ANY METHOD FOR REGISTRATION AVAILABLE PURSUANT TO THIS
 CHAPTER and vote in [the general] ANY election held at  least  ten  days
 after such registration.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.