Requires the board of elections in a city with a population of one million or more to notify by mail state and county party committees and certain elected officials prior to a change of polling place.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4274--B
Cal. No. 1331
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 3, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered
to first and second report, amended on second report, ordered to a
third reading, and to be reprinted as amended, retaining its place in
the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring the board of
elections in a city with a population of one million or more to
provide certain notices prior to a change of polling place
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 4-104 of the election law is
2 amended to read as follows:
3 2. (a) If the board of elections, after designating a polling place,
4 and after sending written notice of such polling place to each regis-
5 tered voter, designates an alternative polling place, it must, at least
6 five days before the next election or day for registration, send by mail
7 a written notice to each registered voter notifying [him] such voter of
8 the changed location of such polling place. If such notice is not possi-
9 ble the board of elections must provide for an alternative form of
10 notice to be given to voters at the location of the previous polling
11 place.
12 (b) In a city with a population of one million or more, when the board
13 of elections is notified of the need to change the location of a polling
14 place, such board of elections shall, within five days of receiving such
15 notice, notify by mail the following officials:
16 (i) the chairpersons of all state party committees;
17 (ii) the chairpersons of all county party committees in the county in
18 which such polling place is located;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (iii) the member of the state assembly representing the district in
2 which such polling place is located;
3 (iv) the state senator representing the district in which such polling
4 place is located;
5 (v) the city councilmember representing the district in which such
6 polling place is located; and
7 (vi) the assembly district leaders for any part of the assembly
8 district whose voters are assigned to such polling place, or, in an
9 assembly district in which district leaders are elected in parts, the
10 district leaders for the part in which the polling place is located.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
