Bill Text: NY S09675 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to primary elections with only uncontested elections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-05 - referred to election law [S09675 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09675-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9675

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 17, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- (at request of the State Board of Elections)
          -- 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 primary elections with
          only uncontested elections

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of  section 8-402 of the election law, as
     2  amended by chapter 373 of the laws  of  1978,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    6. In the case of a primary election, the board shall deliver only the
     5  ballot  of the party in which the records of the board of elections show
     6  the applicant to be enrolled. In the event a primary election is  uncon-
     7  tested in the applicant's election district for all offices or positions
     8  [except  the  party position of member of the ward, town, city or county
     9  committee], no ballot shall be delivered  to  such  applicant  for  such
    10  election;  and  the  applicant shall be advised why [he is] they are not
    11  being sent a ballot.
    12    § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 8-702 of the election law, as  added  by
    13  chapter 481 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
    14    3.  In  the  case  of a primary election, the board of elections shall
    15  deliver only the ballot of the party in which the records of  the  board
    16  of  elections  show the applicant to be enrolled. In the event a primary
    17  election is uncontested in the applicant's  election  district  for  all
    18  offices  or  positions [except the party position of member of the ward,
    19  town, city or county committee], no ballot shall be  delivered  to  such
    20  applicant for such election; and the applicant shall be advised why they
    21  are not being sent a ballot.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15503-02-4