Requires the counting of an affidavit ballot of an eligible voter if such voter appeared at a polling place in the correct county but in the incorrect election district.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6971--A
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 18, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law -- recommitted to the Committee on Election Law in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to counting of affidavit
ballots
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 3 of paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section
2 9-209 of the election law, as added by chapter 248 of the laws of 2009,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 3. If the board of elections determines that a person was entitled to
5 vote at such election, the board shall cast and canvass such ballot if
6 such board finds that the voter appeared at [the correct] a polling
7 place in the correct county, regardless of the fact that the voter may
8 have appeared in the incorrect election district.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05016-04-0
