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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          8340
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    December 18, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. BUCHWALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Election Law
 
        AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to the retention of poll
          books
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of  section 3-220 of the election law, as
     2  amended by chapter 163 of the laws  of  1994,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    6. All petitions, certificates, objections or papers filed or deposit-
     5  ed with a board or officer before an election or primary and relating to
     6  designations  or  nominations,  and  all  registers,  books, statements,
     7  returns or papers so filed or deposited after registration,  enrollment,
     8  election or primary at which they were used or to which they relate, not
     9  including,  however,  the voted, unused, protested, void or wholly blank
    10  ballots, shall be preserved by such board or officer for  at  least  two
    11  years  after  the  receipt  thereof  and  until the determination of any
    12  action or proceeding touching the same or in which they are  ordered  to
    13  be  preserved  pending the action or proceeding and at the expiration of

    14  such time they may be either destroyed  or  sold.  Lists  of  registered
    15  voters  with  computer  generated  facsimile  signatures used in lieu of
    16  registration poll records at any election shall be preserved  until  the
    17  end  of  the  [fourth]  second  calendar  year  after  the  year of such
    18  election. In all jurisdictions, the original statements of results  made
    19  by the state board of canvassers or a county or city board of canvassers
    20  and any original record specifying the name of a person declared to have
    21  been elected to a public office shall not be destroyed or sold but shall
    22  be  preserved,  as  part  of the records of such board or officer, until
    23  otherwise provided by law.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13047-02-3