Requires the counting of an affidavit ballot of an eligible voter if such voter appeared at a polling place in the correct county but in the incorrect election district; provides that such vote shall not be cast and canvassed for such contests for which the person was not entitled to vote at such election.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3304--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. CARROLL, DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED, COLTON, MOSLEY,
BLAKE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to counting of affidavit
ballots
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of
2 section 9-209 of the election law, as amended by chapter 308 of the laws
3 of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
4 (iii) If the board of elections determines that a person was entitled
5 to vote at such election, the board shall cast and canvass such ballot
6 if such board finds that the voter appeared at [the correct] a polling
7 place in the correct county, regardless of the fact that the voter may
8 have appeared in the incorrect election district; provided that such
9 vote shall not be cast and canvassed for such contests for which the
10 person was not entitled to vote at 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.
LBD01502-03-9
