Bill Text: NY A01111 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows delivery of an application for an absentee ballot to the board of elections through and on the day of the election.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to election law [A01111 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A01111-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1111 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 13, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON, PAULIN, DARLING, DICKENS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to allowing delivery of an application for an absentee ballot to the board of elections through and on the day of the election The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 8-400 of the 2 election law, as separately amended by chapters 273 and 746 of the laws 3 of 2021, is amended to read as follows: 4 (c) All applications requesting an absentee ballot by mail or through 5 the electronic absentee ballot application transmittal system must be 6 received by the board of elections not later than the fifteenth day 7 before the election for which a ballot is first requested. Applications 8 for an absentee ballot that will be delivered in person at the board of 9 elections to the voter or to an agent of the voter must be received by 10 such board not later than the day [before] of such election. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03114-01-3
