STATE OF NEW YORK
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5842
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 16, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to qualifications of
voters convicted of a felony; and repealing certain provisions of such
law relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2, 3, 4 and 5 of section 5-106 of the election
2 law are REPEALED and subdivision 6 is renumbered subdivision 2.
3 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 5-400 of the election law, as amended by
4 section 20 of chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, paragraph (a) as amended
5 by section 21 of chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as
6 follows:
7 1. A voter's registration, including the registration of a voter in
8 inactive status, shall be cancelled if, since the time of his or her
9 last registration, he or she:
10 (a) Moved his or her residence outside the city or county in which he
11 or she is registered.
12 (b) [Was convicted of a felony disqualifying him from voting pursuant
13 to the provisions of section 5-106 of this article.
14 (c)] Has been adjudicated an incompetent.
15 [(d)] (c) Refused to take a challenge oath.
16 [(e)] (d) Has died.
17 [(f)] (e) Did not vote in any election conducted by the board of
18 elections during the period ending with the second general election at
19 which candidates for federal office are on the ballot after his or her
20 name was placed in inactive status and for whom the board of elections
21 did not, during such period, in any other way, receive any information
22 that such voter still resides in the same county or city.
23 [(g)] (f) Personally requested to have his or her name removed from
24 the list of registered voters.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 [(h)] (g) For any other reason, is no longer qualified to vote as
2 provided in this chapter.
3 § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 5-708 of the election law is REPEALED
4 and subdivisions 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, subdivision 3 as renumbered by chap-
5 ter 659 of the laws of 1994, are renumbered subdivisions 2, 3, 4, 5 and
6 6.
7 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
