STATE OF NEW YORK
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9128
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the timing of the annu-
al check of registrants; and providing for the repeal of such
provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 4-117 of the election law, as
2 separately amended by chapters 3 and 5 of the laws of 2019, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 1. The board of elections, not less than [sixty-five] eighty-five days
5 nor more than [seventy] ninety days before the primary election in each
6 year, shall send by mail on which is endorsed such language designated
7 by the state board of elections to ensure postal authorities do not
8 forward such mail but return it to the board of elections with forward-
9 ing information, when it cannot be delivered as addressed and which
10 contains a request that any such mail received for persons not residing
11 at the address be dropped back in the mail, a communication, in a form
12 approved by the state board of elections, to every registered voter who
13 has been registered without a change of address since the beginning of
14 such year, except that the board of elections shall not be required to
15 send such communications to voters in inactive status. The communication
16 shall notify the voter of the days and hours of the ensuing primary and
17 general elections, the place where he or she appears by his or her
18 registration records to be entitled to vote, the fact that voters who
19 have moved or will have moved from the address where they were last
20 registered must either notify the board of elections of his or her new
21 address or vote by paper ballot at the polling place for his or her new
22 address even if such voter has not re-registered, or otherwise notified
23 the board of elections of the change of address. If the primary will not
24 be held on the first Tuesday after the second Monday in September, the
25 communication shall contain a conspicuous notice in all capital letters
26 and bold font notifying the voter of the primary date. If the location
27 of the polling place for the voter's election district has been moved,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 the communication shall contain the following legend in bold type: "YOUR
2 POLLING PLACE HAS BEEN CHANGED. YOU NOW VOTE AT..........". The communi-
3 cation shall also indicate whether the polling place is accessible to
4 physically disabled voters, that a voter who will be out of the city or
5 county on the day of the primary or general election or a voter who is
6 ill or physically disabled may obtain an absentee ballot, that a phys-
7 ically disabled voter whose polling place is not accessible may request
8 that his registration record be moved to an election district which has
9 a polling place which is accessible, the phone number to call for appli-
10 cations to move a registration record or for absentee ballot applica-
11 tions, the phone number to call for the location of registration and
12 polling places, the phone number to call to indicate that the voter is
13 willing to serve on election day as an election inspector, poll clerk,
14 interpreter or in other capacities, the phone number to call to obtain
15 an application for registration by mail, and such other information
16 concerning the elections or registration as the board may include. In
17 lieu of sending such communication to every registered voter, the board
18 of elections may send a single communication to a household containing
19 more than one registered voter, provided that the names of all such
20 voters appear as part of the address on such communication.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
22 deemed repealed December 31, 2020.
