STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1980

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- 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 the definition of party

          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 1-104 of the election law, as
     2  amended by section 10 of part ZZZ of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    3. The term "party" means any political organization which[, excluding
     5  blank  and  void  ballots,  at  the last preceding election for governor
     6  received, at least two percent of the total votes cast for its candidate
     7  for governor, or one hundred thirty thousand votes, whichever is  great-
     8  er,  in the year in which a governor is elected and at least two percent
     9  of the total votes cast for its candidate for president, or one  hundred
    10  thirty  thousand votes, whichever is greater, in a year when a president
    11  is elected] at the last preceding election for governor polled at  least
    12  fifty thousand votes for its candidate for governor.
    13    § 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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