STATE OF NEW YORK
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1566--B
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 10, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. TAYLOR -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted
to the Committee on Election Law in accordance with Assembly Rule 3,
sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to including a statement
on the envelopes of ballots for early mail voters, absentee voters and
special presidential voters for signature affirmation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 7-119 of the election law, as
2 added by chapter 481 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
3 6. On the reverse side of such inner affirmation envelope shall be
4 printed the following statement:
5 AFFIRMATION
6 I do declare that I am a citizen of the United States, that I am duly
7 registered in the election district shown on the reverse side of this
8 envelope and I am qualified to vote in such district; that I have not
9 qualified nor do I intend to vote elsewhere, that I have not committed
10 any act nor am I under any impediment which denies me the right to vote.
11 I hereby declare that the foregoing is a true statement to the best of
12 my knowledge and belief, and I understand that if I make any material
13 false statement in the foregoing statement of early mail voter, I shall
14 be guilty of a misdemeanor.
15 Date ............... 20 ................
16 ..........................
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00491-07-6
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1 Signature or mark of voter
2 ..........................
3 Signature of Witness
4 (required only if voter
5 does not sign their own
6 name)
7 ..........................
8 Address of Witness
9 IMPORTANT: YOU MUST SIGN THE AFFIRMATION ON THIS ENVELOPE.
10 § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 7-122 of the election law, as amended by
11 chapter 411 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
12 6. On the reverse side of such inner affirmation envelope shall be
13 printed the following statement:
14 AFFIRMATION
15 I do declare that I am a citizen of the United States, that I am duly
16 registered in the election district shown on the reverse side of this
17 envelope and I am qualified to vote in such district; that I will be
18 unable to appear personally on the day of the election for which this
19 ballot is voted at the polling place of the election district in which I
20 am a qualified voter because of the reason given on my application here-
21 tofore submitted; that I have not qualified nor do I intend to vote
22 elsewhere, that I have not committed any act nor am I under any imped-
23 iment which denies me the right to vote.
24 I hereby declare that the foregoing is a true statement to the best of
25 my knowledge and belief, and I understand that if I make any material
26 false statement in the foregoing statement of absentee voter, I shall be
27 guilty of a misdemeanor.
28 Date.................20..... .....................................
29 Signature or mark of voter
30 .....................................
31 Signature of Witness (required only
32 if voter does not sign [his or her]
33 their own name)
34 .....................................
35 Address of Witness
36 IMPORTANT: YOU MUST SIGN THE AFFIRMATION ON THIS ENVELOPE.
37 § 3. Subdivision 3 of section 7-125 of the election law, as amended by
38 chapter 411 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
39 3. On the reverse side of such envelope shall be printed the follow-
40 ing statement:
41 STATEMENT OF SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL VOTER
42 I do declare I am a qualified special presidential voter of said
43 district; that I am not qualified and am not able to qualify to vote
44 elsewhere than as set forth on the reverse side of this envelope; that I
45 am a citizen of the United States; that on the date of the election for
46 which this ballot is voted, I will be at least eighteen years of age;
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1 and that I have not committed any act, nor am I under any impediment,
2 which denies me the right to vote.
3 I hereby declare that the foregoing is a true statement to the best of
4 my knowledge and belief, and I understand that if I make any material
5 false statement in the foregoing statement, I shall be guilty of a
6 misdemeanor.
7 Date.................20..... .....................................
8 Signature or mark of voter
9 .....................................
10 Signature of Witness (required only
11 if voter does not sign [his or her]
12 their own name)
13 .....................................
14 Address of Witness
15 IMPORTANT: YOU MUST SIGN THE AFFIRMATION ON THIS ENVELOPE.
16 § 4. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
17 law.
