STATE OF NEW YORK
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8610--B
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
October 2, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, FAHY, D'URSO, ENGLEBRIGHT, GRIFFIN,
JAFFEE, ROZIC, JACOBSON, DeSTEFANO, SEAWRIGHT, MOSLEY, THIELE, GALEF,
CRUZ, BLAKE, STECK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LAWRENCE -- 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 committee -- reported and referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means -- reported and referred 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 requiring munici-
palities with the highest population in each county to have at least
one polling place designated for early voting
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 8-600 of the
2 election law, as added by chapter 6 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (a) The board of elections shall designate polling places for early
5 voting, which may include the offices of the board of elections, for
6 persons to vote early pursuant to this title; provided, however, that
7 the municipality with the highest population in each county based on the
8 latest federal decennial census shall have at least one polling place
9 designated for early voting, and to the extent practicable if such muni-
10 cipality has public transportation routes, such polling place shall be
11 situated along such transportation routes. There shall be so designated
12 at least one early voting polling place for every full increment of
13 fifty thousand registered voters in each county; provided, however, the
14 number of early voting polling places in a county shall not be required
15 to be greater than [seven] ten unless required by any other provision of
16 law, and a county with fewer than fifty thousand voters shall have at
17 least one early voting polling place.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2021.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13799-05-0
