STATE OF NEW YORK
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925
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to compelling the board of
elections to notify voters whenever a polling place location is to be
changed or moved
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 4-104 of the election law is
2 amended to read as follows:
3 2. If the board of elections, after designating a polling place, and
4 after sending written notice of such polling place to each registered
5 voter, designates an alternative, or changes the location of a polling
6 place, it must, at least [five days] three months before the next
7 election or day for registration, send by mail a written notice to each
8 registered voter notifying him or her of the changed location of such
9 polling place and the board shall notify the general public through a
10 comprehensive notification process, including but not limited to, mail-
11 ing post cards or posting notices at the previous polling place location
12 and throughout the local community where the previous polling place was
13 originally located. If such notice is not possible the board of
14 elections must provide for an alternative form of notice to be given to
15 voters and the general public at the location of the previous polling
16 place.
17 § 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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