Bill Text: NY S01900 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the county seat in Seneca county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S01900 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01900-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1900

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 14, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to  requiring  the  county
          seat  in  Seneca  county to have at least one polling place designated
          for early voting

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision 2 of section 8-600 of the
     2  election law, as amended by chapter 781 of the laws of 2021, is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (b)  The  largest  city  in  the county or, if there is no city in the
     5  county, the municipality with the  highest  population  in  each  county
     6  based  on  the  latest  federal  decennial census, or the county seat in
     7  Washington county, or the county seat in Seneca county,  shall  have  at
     8  least  one  polling place designated for early voting, and to the extent
     9  practicable if such  city  or  municipality  has  public  transportation
    10  routes,  such  polling place shall be situated along such transportation
    11  routes.
    12    § 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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