Bill Text: NY A03563 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act to amend the election law, in relation to withdrawal from a run-off election after a primary

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-08-30 - signed chap.424 [A03563 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A03563-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3563
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 27, 2009
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       Introduced  by M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Election Law
       AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to withdrawal from a  run-
         off election after a primary
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Section 6-162 of the election law, as amended  by  chapter
    2  418 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S  6-162. Primary; New York City, run-off. 1. In the city of New York,
    4  when no candidate for the office of  mayor,  public  advocate  or  comp-
    5  troller  receives forty percent or more of the votes cast by the members
    6  of a political party for such office in a  city-wide  primary  election,
    7  the  board  of  elections  of  such city shall conduct a run-off primary
    8  election between the two candidates receiving  the  greatest  number  of
    9  votes for the same office.
   10    2.    IN  ANY  JURISDICTION THAT AUTHORIZES A RUN-OFF ELECTION AFTER A
   11  PRIMARY ELECTION, IF ONE OF THE TWO CANDIDATES  RECEIVING  THE  GREATEST
   12  NUMBER  OF  VOTES  FOR  THE  SAME  OFFICE  FILES WITH THE LOCAL BOARD OF
   13  ELECTIONS A CERTIFICATE OF WITHDRAWAL WITHIN THREE DAYS  FOLLOWING  SUCH
   14  PRIMARY  ELECTION, THE BOARD SHALL ACCEPT AND CERTIFY THE WITHDRAWAL AND
   15  DECLARE THE REMAINING CANDIDATE THE WINNER AND NO SUCH  RUN-OFF  PRIMARY
   16  ELECTION  SHALL  BE  HELD.    SUCH CERTIFICATE OF WITHDRAWAL SHALL BE IN
   17  AFFIDAVIT OR AFFIRMATION FORM  AS  DETERMINED  BY  THE  STATE  BOARD  OF
   18  ELECTIONS.
   19    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
   20  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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