STATE OF NEW YORK
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8731
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 2, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. MOLITOR -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to permitting election
commissioners to agree on alternative locations for polling places
designated for early voting within the county
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 8-600 of the
2 election law, as amended by chapter 781 of the laws of 2021, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (b) The largest city in the county or, if there is no city in the
5 county, the municipality with the highest population in each county
6 based on the latest federal decennial census, or the county seat in
7 Washington county, or, where the election commissioners representing
8 both major political parties in a county agree to an alternative
9 location for early voting, such alternative location, shall have at
10 least one polling place designated for early voting, and to the extent
11 practicable if such city or municipality has public transportation
12 routes, such polling place shall be situated along such transportation
13 routes.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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