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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          3563
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 27, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law
 
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to withdrawal from a  run-
          off election after a primary
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 

     1    Section 1.  Section 6-162 of the election law, as amended  by  chapter
     2  418 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  6-162. Primary; New York City, run-off. 1. In the city of New York,
     4  when no candidate for the office of  mayor,  public  advocate  or  comp-
     5  troller  receives forty percent or more of the votes cast by the members
     6  of a political party for such office in a  city-wide  primary  election,
     7  the  board  of  elections  of  such city shall conduct a run-off primary
     8  election between the two candidates receiving  the  greatest  number  of
     9  votes for the same office.
    10    2.    In  any  jurisdiction that authorizes a run-off election after a
    11  primary election, if one of the two candidates  receiving  the  greatest
    12  number  of  votes  for  the  same  office  files with the local board of

    13  elections a certificate of withdrawal within three days  following  such
    14  primary  election, the board shall accept and certify the withdrawal and
    15  declare the remaining candidate the winner and no such  run-off  primary
    16  election  shall  be  held.    Such certificate of withdrawal shall be in
    17  affidavit or affirmation form  as  determined  by  the  state  board  of
    18  elections.
    19    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    20  have become a law.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02081-01-9