STATE OF NEW YORK
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6438
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 4, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,
ZINERMAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to qualifications of
voters convicted of a felony; and repealing certain provisions of such
law relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2, 3, 4 and 5 of section 5-106 of the election
2 law are REPEALED and subdivision 6 is renumbered subdivision 2.
3 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 5-400 of the election law, as amended by
4 chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, paragraph (a) as amended by chapter 3
5 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
6 1. A voter's registration, including the registration of a voter in
7 inactive status, shall be cancelled if, since the time of [his] last
8 registration, [he] the voter:
9 (a) Moved [his or her] their residence outside the state.
10 (b) [Was convicted of a felony disqualifying him from voting pursuant
11 to the provisions of section 5-106 of this article.
12 (c)] Has been adjudicated an incompetent.
13 [(d)] (c) Refused to take a challenge oath.
14 [(e)] (d) Has died.
15 [(f)] (e) Did not vote in any election conducted by the board of
16 elections during the period ending with the second general election at
17 which candidates for federal office are on the ballot after [his] the
18 voter's name was placed in inactive status and for whom the board of
19 elections did not, during such period, in any other way, receive any
20 information that such voter still resides in the same county or city.
21 [(g)] (f) Personally requested to have [his] the voter's name removed
22 from the list of registered voters.
23 [(h)] (g) For any other reason, is no longer qualified to vote as
24 provided in this chapter.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 5-708 of the election law is REPEALED
2 and subdivisions 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, subdivision 3 as renumbered by chap-
3 ter 659 of the laws of 1994, are renumbered subdivisions 2, 3, 4, 5 and
4 6.
5 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
