STATE OF NEW YORK
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876
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 11, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, REYES, RIVERA, SAYEGH, SIMON, DeSTEFANO,
BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to empowering the commis-
sioner of a board of elections to order a voting machine audit upon a
finding of discrepancies
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 9-211 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 763 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 4. The state board of elections shall, in accordance with subdivision
5 four of section 3-100 of this chapter, promulgate regulations establish-
6 ing a uniform statewide standard to be used by boards of elections to
7 determine when a discrepancy between the audit tallies and the voting
8 machine or system tallies shall require a further voter verifiable
9 record audit of additional voting machines or systems or a complete
10 audit of all machines or systems within the jurisdiction of a board of
11 elections. Any commissioner of a board of elections shall be empowered
12 to order that any such audit shall be conducted whenever any such
13 discrepancy exists.
14 § 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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