Bill Text: NY A04201 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that voters who file a change of enrollment at least 25 days prior to the next ensuing primary, general, or special election shall be eligible to vote in such election.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-30 - enacting clause stricken [A04201 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04201-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4201
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. SEPULVEDA, MOSLEY -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Election Law
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to eligibility to vote  in
          a  primary,  general,  or  special  election  after filing a change of
          enrollment with the board of elections
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section 5-304 of the election law, as
     2  amended by chapter 90 of the  laws  of  1991,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    3.  A  change  of  enrollment  when  received  by  [the]  any board of
     5  elections and, with respect to forms promulgated by the federal election
     6  commission, when received by the state board of elections, or showing  a
     7  dated cancellation mark of the United States Postal Service or contained
     8  in an envelope showing such a dated cancellation mark which is not later
     9  than  the  twenty-fifth  day before the next ensuing primary, general or
    10  special election, and received no later than the  twentieth  day  before
    11  such  election,  or  delivered  in person to such board of elections not
    12  later than the tenth day before a special election,  shall  entitle  the
    13  applicant to vote in such election, if he or she is otherwise qualified.
    14  The  change of enrollment shall be deposited in a sealed enrollment box,
    15  which shall not be opened until the first Tuesday following such [gener-
    16  al] election. Such change  of  enrollment  shall  be  then  removed  and
    17  entered as provided in this article.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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