Permits New York city voters to sign designating petitions for multiple candidates for the same New York City municipal public office or party position.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6582--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 19, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. MAMDANI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Election Law -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to permitting New York
city voters to sign designating petitions for multiple candidates for
the same New York city municipal public office or party position
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 6-134 of the election law, as
2 added by chapter 709 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
3 3. (a) If a voter shall sign any petition or petitions designating a
4 greater number of candidates for public office or party position than
5 the number of persons to be elected thereto [his] their signatures, if
6 they bear the same date, shall not be counted upon any petition, and if
7 they bear different dates shall be counted in the order of their priori-
8 ty of date, for only so many designees as there are persons to be
9 elected.
10 (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivi-
11 sion, a voter in the city of New York may designate a greater number of
12 candidates for a New York city municipal public office or party position
13 within the five counties of New York city than the number of persons to
14 be elected, with no limit to the number of designations.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10335-03-1
