A11218 Summary:
| BILL NO | A11218 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | Slater |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §16-102, El L | |
| Deems certain nominating or designating petitions to be permeated with fraud and invalidating the filings made by a contested candidate. | |
A11218 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 11218 IN ASSEMBLY May 1, 2026 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to deeming certain nomi- nating or designating petitions to be permeated with fraud and invali- dating the filings made by a contested candidate The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 16-102 of the election law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 5 to read as follows: 3 5. Where the court has determined that a cumulative total of twenty- 4 five percent or more of all signatures on a petition are fraudulent, the 5 court shall issue a final order declaring the entire petition invalid 6 and permeated with fraud. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15683-01-6