Requires the board of elections to print in bold type of at least sixteen point font the date and time of all upcoming primary and general elections on address verification notices sent out prior to elections.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2826
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. PERRY, KAVANAGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
HOOPER, ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election
Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the notice of the days
and hours for voting in primary and general elections
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 4-117 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 44 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. The board of elections, between August first and August fifth of
5 each year, shall send by mail on which is endorsed such language desig-
6 nated by the state board of elections to ensure postal authorities do
7 not forward such mail but return it to the board of elections with
8 forwarding information, when it cannot be delivered as addressed and
9 which contains a request that any such mail received for persons not
10 residing at the address be dropped back in the mail, a communication, in
11 a form approved by the state board of elections, to every registered
12 voter who has been registered without a change of address since the
13 beginning of such year, except that the board of elections shall not be
14 required to send such communications to voters in inactive status. The
15 communication shall notify the voter in bold print of at least sixteen
16 point font contained in such notice of the days and hours of the ensuing
17 primary and general elections, the place where he appears by his regis-
18 tration records to be entitled to vote, and also in other than bold type
19 of the fact that voters who have moved or will have moved from the
20 address where they were last registered must re-register or, that if
21 such move was to another address in the same county or city, that such
22 voter may either notify the board of elections of his new address or
23 vote by paper ballot at the polling place for his new address even if
24 such voter has not re-registered, or otherwise notified the board of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 elections of the change of address. If the location of the polling place
2 for the voter's election district has been moved, the communication
3 shall contain the following legend in bold type: "YOUR POLLING PLACE HAS
4 BEEN CHANGED. YOU NOW VOTE AT..........". The communication shall also
5 indicate whether the polling place is accessible to physically disabled
6 voters, that a voter who will be out of the city or county on the day of
7 the primary or general election or a voter who is ill or physically
8 disabled may obtain an absentee ballot, that a physically disabled voter
9 whose polling place is not accessible may request that his registration
10 record be moved to an election district which has a polling place which
11 is accessible, the phone number to call for applications to move a
12 registration record or for absentee ballot applications, the phone
13 number to call for the location of registration and polling places, the
14 phone number to call to indicate that the voter is willing to serve on
15 election day as an election inspector, poll clerk, interpreter or in
16 other capacities, the phone number to call to obtain an application for
17 registration by mail, and such other information concerning the
18 elections or registration as the board may include. In lieu of sending
19 such communication to every registered voter, the board of elections may
20 send a single communication to a household containing more than one
21 registered voter, provided that the names of all such voters appear as
22 part of the address on such communication.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of December next succeed-
24 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
