Bill Text: NY S00569 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes county boards of elections to establish county-wide polling places where any person entitled to vote in such county by personal appearance may so vote on the day of a primary election or general election, subject to approval by the state board of elections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2025-01-13 - referred to election law [S00569 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00569-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           569

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by Sens. MAY, SKOUFIS, WEBB -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections

        AN ACT to amend the election law,  in  relation  to  authorizing  county
          boards of elections to establish county-wide polling places

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

     1    Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new  section  8-110
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 8-110. County-wide  polling  places.  1.    For the purposes of this
     4  section, the term "county-wide polling place" shall mean a polling place
     5  in a county where any person entitled to vote in such county by personal
     6  appearance may so vote on the day  of  a  primary  election  or  general
     7  election.
     8    2.  A  county board of elections may establish one or more county-wide
     9  polling places in its county,  upon  approval  by  the  state  board  of
    10  elections pursuant to subdivision five of this section.
    11    3.  Any person entitled to vote in a county by personal appearance may
    12  do so at any county-wide polling place established in such county pursu-
    13  ant to subdivision two of this section.
    14    4. Any such county-wide polling place shall be subject  to  all  other
    15  voting  and  polling place requirements under this article not otherwise
    16  inconsistent with the provisions of this section.
    17    5. No county board of elections shall establish a county-wide  polling
    18  place pursuant to this section without first obtaining approval from the
    19  state  board  of  elections.  A  county board of elections may seek such
    20  approval by submitting its plans for the establishment  and  implementa-
    21  tion  of  such county-wide polling place to the state board of elections
    22  no later than ninety days before the date  of  the  next  election.  The
    23  state  board  of elections shall promulgate rules and regulations estab-
    24  lishing the approval process pursuant to this subdivision, and governing
    25  the implementation  of  county-wide  polling  places  pursuant  to  this
    26  section.
    27    § 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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