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S06253 Summary:

BILL NOS06253A
 
SAME ASSAME AS A06741-A
 
SPONSORSKOUFIS
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §7-118, El L
 
Requires state and county boards of elections to post sample ballots online at least twelve days prior to the first day of early voting; requires such ballots to be posted in a searchable database.
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S06253 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         6253--A
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      March 7, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the election law, in relation to requiring state and
          county boards of elections to post sample ballots
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.    Subdivision  3 of section 7-118 of the election law, as
     2  separately amended by chapters 410 and 411  of  the  laws  of  2019,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    3.  Sample  ballots  may  be  mailed by the board of elections to each
     5  eligible voter at least three days before  the  [election,  or  in  lieu
     6  thereof,  a  copy  of  such sample ballot may be published at least once
     7  within one week preceding the election in newspapers  or  on  a  website
     8  maintained  by  the board of elections] first day of early voting.  Each
     9  county board of elections shall transmit electronically in a  format  to
    10  be  determined  by  the  state board of elections, as it is available, a
    11  copy [of the candidate and contest information contained on each of  its
    12  ballot styles] of a sample ballot for all election districts within that
    13  county  to the state board of elections. [The state board shall create a
    14  system to allow such information to be made publicly available  via  its
    15  website, as well as the website of any county board of elections, and in
    16  such a way as to be accessible with a computer screen-reading program.]
    17    §  2.  Section  7-118 of the election law is amended by adding two new
    18  subdivisions 3-a and 3-b to read as follows:
    19    3-a. The state board of elections shall post a sample ballot for  each
    20  election  district  in  the state on the board's website at least twelve
    21  days prior to the first day of early voting. The board shall  post  such
    22  sample  ballots  in  a searchable database which allows voters to obtain
    23  polling site information, voter district information and a sample ballot
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07649-03-5

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     1  that such voter shall be eligible to cast at the next  election.  Sample
     2  ballots  shall  have  an embedded security tool to prevent tampering and
     3  printing of such sample ballots.
     4    3-b.  Each county board of elections may post a sample ballot for each
     5  election district within that county at least twelve days prior  to  the
     6  first day of early voting. A county board that posts such sample ballots
     7  shall  do so in a searchable database that allows voters to obtain poll-
     8  ing site information and a sample ballot that such voter shall be eligi-
     9  ble to cast in the next election. Such  sample  ballots  shall  have  an
    10  embedded security tool to prevent tampering and printing of such ballot.
    11  Such  county  board  of  elections  may also refer to the state board of
    12  elections' website for such information  to  be  delivered  pursuant  to
    13  subdivision three-a of this section.
    14    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law.
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