Bill Text: NY A02826 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the board of elections to print in bold type of at least sixteen point font the date and time of all upcoming primary and general elections on address verification notices sent out prior to elections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-12 - ordered to third reading rules cal.90 [A02826 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02826-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2826
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 23, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. PERRY, KAVANAGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          HOOPER,  ORTIZ  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election
          Law
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the notice of the  days
          and hours for voting in primary and general elections
          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 4-117  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  44  of  the  laws  of  2016, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. The board of elections, between August first and  August  fifth  of
     5  each  year, shall send by mail on which is endorsed such language desig-
     6  nated by the state board of elections to ensure  postal  authorities  do
     7  not  forward  such  mail  but  return  it to the board of elections with
     8  forwarding information, when it cannot be  delivered  as  addressed  and
     9  which  contains  a  request  that any such mail received for persons not
    10  residing at the address be dropped back in the mail, a communication, in
    11  a form approved by the state board of  elections,  to  every  registered
    12  voter  who  has  been  registered  without a change of address since the
    13  beginning of such year, except that the board of elections shall not  be
    14  required  to  send such communications to voters in inactive status. The
    15  communication shall notify the voter in bold print of at  least  sixteen
    16  point font contained in such notice of the days and hours of the ensuing
    17  primary  and general elections, the place where he appears by his regis-
    18  tration records to be entitled to vote, and also in other than bold type
    19  of the fact that voters who have moved  or  will  have  moved  from  the
    20  address  where  they  were  last registered must re-register or, that if
    21  such move was to another address in the same county or city,  that  such
    22  voter  may  either  notify  the board of elections of his new address or
    23  vote by paper ballot at the polling place for his new  address  even  if
    24  such  voter  has  not  re-registered, or otherwise notified the board of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08388-01-7
        A. 2826                             2
     1  elections of the change of address. If the location of the polling place
     2  for the voter's election district  has  been  moved,  the  communication
     3  shall contain the following legend in bold type: "YOUR POLLING PLACE HAS
     4  BEEN  CHANGED. YOU NOW VOTE AT..........".  The communication shall also
     5  indicate whether the polling place is accessible to physically  disabled
     6  voters, that a voter who will be out of the city or county on the day of
     7  the  primary  or  general  election  or a voter who is ill or physically
     8  disabled may obtain an absentee ballot, that a physically disabled voter
     9  whose polling place is not accessible may request that his  registration
    10  record  be moved to an election district which has a polling place which
    11  is accessible, the phone number to  call  for  applications  to  move  a
    12  registration  record  or  for  absentee  ballot  applications, the phone
    13  number to call for the location of registration and polling places,  the
    14  phone  number  to call to indicate that the voter is willing to serve on
    15  election day as an election inspector, poll  clerk,  interpreter  or  in
    16  other  capacities, the phone number to call to obtain an application for
    17  registration  by  mail,  and  such  other  information  concerning   the
    18  elections  or  registration as the board may include. In lieu of sending
    19  such communication to every registered voter, the board of elections may
    20  send a single communication to a  household  containing  more  than  one
    21  registered  voter,  provided that the names of all such voters appear as
    22  part of the address on such communication.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of December next succeed-
    24  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.