STATE OF NEW YORK
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1777
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. WALCZYK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring persons
appointed as election commissioners to be citizens of the United
States
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 3-200 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 195 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 4. No person shall be appointed as election commissioner or continue
5 to hold office who is not a registered voter in the county [and], not an
6 enrolled member of the party recommending [his] such person's appoint-
7 ment, not a citizen of the United States, or who holds any other public
8 office, except that of commissioner of deeds, notary public, village
9 officer, city or town justice, member of a community board within the
10 city of New York or trustee or officer of a school district outside of a
11 city.
12 § 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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