STATE OF NEW YORK
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8228--B
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 7, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Election Law -- reported and referred to the Committee on Rules
-- Rules Committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules -- Rules Committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to change of enrollment by
previously registered voters
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 5-304 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 90 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. A change of enrollment received by the board of elections [not
5 later than the twenty-fifth day before the general election shall be
6 deposited in a sealed enrollment box, which shall not be opened until
7 the first Tuesday following such general election. Such change of
8 enrollment shall be then removed and entered as provided in this arti-
9 cle] will take effect immediately, provided however, any change of
10 enrollment received by the board of elections after February fourteenth
11 and before or on seven days after the June primary shall take effect on
12 the seventh day after the June primary.
13 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 5-604 of the election law, as amended by
14 chapter 5 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
15 1. The board of elections shall also cause to be published for each
16 election district a complete list of the registered voters of each
17 election district. Such list shall, in addition to the information
18 required for registration lists, include the party enrollment of each
19 voter. At least as many copies of such list shall be prepared as the
20 required minimum number of registration lists.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 Lists for all the election districts in a ward or assembly district
2 may be bound together in one volume. The board of elections shall also
3 cause to be published a complete list of names and residence addresses
4 of the registered voters, including the party enrollment of each voter,
5 for each town and city over which the board has jurisdiction. The names
6 for each town and city may be arranged according to street and number or
7 alphabetically. Such lists shall be published before the [first] twen-
8 ty-first day of February. The board shall keep at least five copies for
9 public inspection at each main office or branch office of the board.
10 Surplus copies of the lists shall be sold at a charge not exceeding the
11 cost of publication.
12 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
