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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5075
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 20, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        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 poll watchers
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section 8-500 of the election law, as
     2  amended by chapter 9 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
     3    4. Each watcher must be a qualified voter of the  city  or  county  in
     4  which  he  or she is to serve.  No person shall be appointed or act as a
     5  watcher who is a candidate for any public office to be voted for by  the
     6  voters of the election district in the same election in which the watch-
     7  er  is  to  serve.    Nothing  in this subdivision shall be construed as
     8  prohibiting any such candidate from visiting a  polling  place  in  such
     9  district on an election day while the polls are open.
    10    §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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