Modifies the order in which candidates appear on the ballot; requires that offices shall be listed on the ballot in descending order based on the size of the electorate and requires certain federal offices to be listed before state, county or local offices.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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725
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 11, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER, JACOBSON, SILLITTI, WALLACE -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the order in which
candidates appear on the ballot
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 11 of section 7-104 of the election law, as
2 added by chapter 411 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
3 11. [The offices appearing on all ballots shall be listed in the
4 customary order] (a) The offices appearing on all ballots shall be list-
5 ed in the order of precedence, as applicable to the offices up for
6 election in any given year, as follows: electors for president and
7 vice-president of the United States, governor and lieutenant governor,
8 New York state comptroller, New York state attorney general, United
9 States senator, member of the house of representatives, New York state
10 senator, member of the New York state assembly. Any office which is not
11 listed in this paragraph shall not appear on the ballot in a position
12 before or ahead of an office which is listed.
13 (b) Immediately following the offices in paragraph (a) of this subdi-
14 vision, all other offices shall be placed upon the ballot in the custom-
15 ary order; provided, further, that partisan offices regardless of the
16 size of the constituency shall be listed before or ahead of nonpartisan
17 offices and all candidates for judicial offices shall follow all other
18 partisan offices.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
20 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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