Bill Text: NY A00929 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires audits by hand recount of voter verifiable audit records.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to election law [A00929 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00929-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           929

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN  ACT to amend the election law, in relation to audits by hand recount
          of voter verifiable audit records

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 9-211 of the election law, as
     2  amended by chapter 5 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1. Within fifteen days after each general or special election,  within
     4  thirteen  days after every primary election, and within seven days after
     5  every village election conducted by the board of elections, the board of
     6  elections or a bipartisan committee appointed by such board shall  audit
     7  the voter verifiable audit records from three percent of voting machines
     8  or  systems  within  the  jurisdiction  of such board. Such audits [may]
     9  shall be performed [manually or  via  the  use  of  any  automated  tool
    10  authorized  for  such use by the state board of elections which is inde-
    11  pendent from the voting system it is being used  to  audit]  by  a  hand
    12  recount.  Voting machines or systems shall be selected for audit through
    13  a random, manual process. At least five days prior to the time fixed for
    14  such selection process, the board of  elections  shall  send  notice  by
    15  first class mail to each candidate, political party and independent body
    16  entitled  to  have  had  watchers  present  at the polls in any election
    17  district in such board's jurisdiction. Such notice shall state the  time
    18  and  place  fixed  for such random selection process. The audit shall be
    19  conducted in the same manner, to the extent applicable, as a canvass  of
    20  paper ballots. Each candidate, political party or independent body enti-
    21  tled  to appoint watchers to attend at a polling place shall be entitled
    22  to appoint such number of watchers to observe the audit.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02109-01-1