Requires bi-monthly reporting on deceased voters and certain persons subject to forfeiture of the right to vote in order to accurately maintain the statewide voter registration list.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6194
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 3, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. NORRIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to removal of deceased
voters and certain persons subject to forfeiture of the right to vote
from the statewide voter registration list
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 5 and 6 of section 5-614 of the election law,
2 as added by chapter 24 of the laws of 2005, are amended to read as
3 follows:
4 5. For purposes of removing names of ineligible voters from the list
5 of eligible voters, the state board of elections shall obtain and trans-
6 mit to local boards of elections, bi-monthly, (a) the list of persons
7 who have died maintained by the New York city department of health and
8 the state department of health, and (b) the list of persons subject to
9 forfeiture of the right to vote pursuant to section 5-106 of this arti-
10 cle maintained by the office of court administration or by a court
11 having made such determination.
12 6. Each local board of elections shall, within [twenty-five] fourteen
13 days after receiving such list of decedents or list of persons subject
14 to forfeiture of the right to vote pursuant to section 5-106 of this
15 article, use such lists to identify and remove decedents and persons
16 subject to forfeiture of the right to vote pursuant to section 5-106 of
17 this article from the list of eligible voters.
18 § 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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