Authorizes the Westchester county board of elections to merge any election district with 50 or fewer registered voters into an existing election district.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A4741
SPONSOR: Pretlow TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the election law, in relation to the consolidation of
certain election districts in the county of Westchester
PURPOSE:
Authorizes the Westchester County board of elections to merge any
election district with 50 or fewer registered voters into an existing
election district,
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 4100 of the election law is amended by adding a new subdivision
2-a.
JUSTIFICATION:
The Board of Elections of Westchester County may merge any election
district with fifty or fewer registered voters into an existing election
district as long as both districts are within the same town, city or
village, and the same assembly, senatorial and congressional district.
No consolidated election district created shall exceed the total number
of combined weighted voters, excluding registrants in active status.
This proposal will have a substantial cost saving measure for the muni-
cipalities within Westchester County.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2021-2022 A1784 referred A3930 referred to Election Law
2019-2020 to election law 01/03/18 A3933 referred to
election law 01/23/13 referred to election law 01/08/14 referred to
election law 01/20/15 A2916 referred to election law 01/06/16 A2916
referred to election law
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Cost savings to the municipalities within Westchester County.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4741
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 23, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the consolidation of
certain election districts in the county of Westchester
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 4-100 of the election law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
3 2-a. Notwithstanding any provision of subdivision two of this section
4 to the contrary, the board of elections of the county of Westchester may
5 merge any election district with fifty or fewer registered voters into
6 an existing election district so long as both such districts are within
7 the same ward, town, city or village, and the same county legislative,
8 assembly, senatorial and congressional district. Furthermore, no consol-
9 idated election district created pursuant to this subdivision shall
10 exceed the total number of registered voters, excluding registrants in
11 inactive status, exceed the maximum number permitted by this section.
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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