STATE OF NEW YORK
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7249
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 29, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. WALCZYK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring the county
seat in Saint Lawrence 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 (a) of subdivision 2 of section 8-600 of the
2 election law, as amended by chapter 74 of the laws of 2021, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (a) The board of elections shall designate polling places for early
5 voting, which may include the offices of the board of elections, for
6 persons to vote early pursuant to this title; provided, however, that
7 the municipality with the highest population in each county based on the
8 latest federal decennial census, or the county seat in Washington coun-
9 ty, or the county seat in Saint Lawrence county, shall have at least one
10 polling place designated for early voting, and to the extent practicable
11 if such municipality has public transportation routes, such polling
12 place shall be situated along such transportation routes. There shall be
13 so designated at least one early voting polling place for every full
14 increment of fifty thousand registered voters in each county; provided,
15 however, the number of early voting polling places in a county shall not
16 be required to be greater than ten unless required by any other
17 provision of law, and a county with fewer than fifty thousand voters
18 shall have at least one early voting polling place.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10370-02-1
