STATE OF NEW YORK
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5870
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 5, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH, COLTON, GOTTFRIED, GALEF, HOOPER,
CAHILL, MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election
Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to voter registration
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 5-210 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 179 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. Completed application forms, when received by any county board of
5 elections and, with respect to application forms promulgated by the
6 federal election commission, when received by the state board of
7 elections, or showing a dated cancellation mark of the United States
8 Postal Service or contained in an envelope showing such a dated cancel-
9 lation mark which is not later than the [twenty-fifth] fifteenth day
10 before the next ensuing primary, general or special election, and
11 received no later than the [twentieth] tenth day before such election,
12 or delivered in person to such county board of elections not later than
13 the tenth day before [a special] such election, shall entitle the appli-
14 cant to vote in such election, if he or she is otherwise qualified,
15 provided, however, such applicant shall not vote on a voting machine
16 until his or her identity is verified. Any county board of elections
17 receiving an application form from a person who does not reside in its
18 jurisdiction but who does reside elsewhere in the state of New York,
19 shall forthwith forward such application form to the proper county board
20 of elections. Each board of elections shall make an entry on each such
21 form of the date it is received by such board.
22 § 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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