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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7454
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       May 4, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. MILLMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Election Law
 
        AN ACT to amend the election law,  in  relation  to  the  canvassing  of
          primary returns by the board of elections
 
          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 9-200  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  29  of  the  laws  of  1983, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    2. The board forthwith upon the completion of the canvass for  members
     5  of  a  state committee and delegates and alternates to a national, state
     6  or judicial district convention, shall transmit to the  state  board  of
     7  elections a certificate stating the name and residence of each member of
     8  a  state  committee  and  delegate and alternate elected from a district
     9  wholly within the jurisdiction of such board, except that, in respect to
    10  a judicial district convention in the  first,  second,  eleventh  [and],
    11  twelfth  and  thirteenth  judicial  districts,  the  board of elections,
    12  instead of transmitting such certificate, shall compile the roll of  the

    13  convention and transmit it to the chairman or secretary of the committee
    14  which,  by  party  rules,  is empowered to fix the time and place of the
    15  convention.  The board of elections shall send by mail to each  delegate
    16  and  alternate elected a notice of his election. The certificate or roll
    17  of the convention shall list the delegates and alternates elected  at  a
    18  primary  in  the  order of the votes received by each delegate or alter-
    19  nate, with the delegate or alternate receiving  the  highest  number  of
    20  votes  listed first. Tie votes shall be indicated in a manner prescribed
    21  by the state board of elections. If there shall have been  no  contested
    22  election for alternates, the names of the alternates shall appear on the
    23  certificate  or  roll  in the order in which their names appeared on the
    24  petition which designated them.
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11382-01-1
        A. 7454                             2
 
     1    § 2. Section 9-202 of the election law, as amended by chapter  218  of
     2  the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  9-202.  Canvass  of  primary  returns  by state board of elections;
     4  convention rolls. The state board of elections upon receipt by  it  from
     5  boards  of  elections  of the tabulated statements of votes at a primary
     6  election required to be filed with it shall proceed forthwith to canvass
     7  such statements. Upon the completion  of  the  canvass  it  shall  make,
     8  certify  and  file  in  its office tabulated statements of the number of

     9  votes cast for all the candidates for nomination to each  public  office
    10  or for election to each party position, and the number of votes cast for
    11  each such candidate. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes
    12  shall be the nominee of his party for such office or shall be elected to
    13  such  party  position,  as the case may be, and the board, if requested,
    14  shall furnish to the elected candidates a certificate of election.  From
    15  such  certified  statements  of  the  votes for delegates and alternates
    16  elected to a state or judicial district convention of any  party,  other
    17  than  a  judicial  district  convention  in  the first, second, eleventh
    18  [and], twelfth and thirteenth judicial districts, the state board  shall
    19  forthwith  compile  the  roll  of  each such convention in duplicate and

    20  transmit it, if for a state convention, to the chairman and secretary of
    21  the state committee of the party, and if for a judicial district conven-
    22  tion, to the chairman and secretary of the  committee  which,  by  party
    23  rules,  is  empowered  to  fix the time and place of the convention. The
    24  roll of the convention shall list the candidates elected at a primary in
    25  the order of the votes received by  each  candidate  together  with  the
    26  number  of  votes  received  by each such candidate. If there shall have
    27  been no contested election for alternates, the names of  the  alternates
    28  shall appear on the roll in the order in which their names appear on the
    29  petition which designated them. The state board of elections shall tran-
    30  smit  copies  of the certified statements of the votes for delegates and
    31  alternates to a national convention of  a  party  to  the  chairman  and

    32  secretary of the state committee of such party.
    33    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.