STATE OF NEW YORK
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1111
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 13, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON, PAULIN, DARLING, DICKENS -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to allowing delivery of an
application for an absentee ballot to the board of elections through
and on the day of the election
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of section 8-400 of the
2 election law, as separately amended by chapters 273 and 746 of the laws
3 of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
4 (c) All applications requesting an absentee ballot by mail or through
5 the electronic absentee ballot application transmittal system must be
6 received by the board of elections not later than the fifteenth day
7 before the election for which a ballot is first requested. Applications
8 for an absentee ballot that will be delivered in person at the board of
9 elections to the voter or to an agent of the voter must be received by
10 such board not later than the day [before] of such election.
11 § 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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