STATE OF NEW YORK
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5071
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 20, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. MILLMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the method of transpor-
tation for the return of unused paper ballots within the city of New
York
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 9-124 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 413 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. [Each] On election night, each box or envelope containing the
5 ballots and stubs, if any, shall be deposited by an inspector designated
6 for that purpose with the officer or board from whom or which the board
7 of inspectors received it, together with the separate sealed package of
8 unused ballots. In the city of New York, every box or envelope contain-
9 ing any ballots or stubs [and the package of unused ballots] shall be
10 delivered at the polling place, at the conclusion of the canvass, to the
11 police or peace officer, who shall deposit them with the board of
12 elections. In the city of New York the board of inspectors shall secure,
13 pursuant to procedures adopted by the board of elections in the city of
14 New York, all packages of unused ballots in the designated container for
15 return to the board of elections in the city of New York.
16 § 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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