STATE OF NEW YORK
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10845
IN ASSEMBLY
July 24, 2020
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Carroll) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring the board of
elections to provide the public with free and timely access to updated
absentee ballot data
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 9-209 of the election law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
3 (f) Upon completing the casting and canvassing of absentee, military,
4 and special ballots for each election district, the board of elections
5 shall post running totals of absentee, military, and special ballots
6 accepted and rejected for each election district in a public place and
7 on the internet. The board of elections shall post such running totals
8 of rejected absentee, military, and special ballots by each of the
9 reasons each ballot was rejected for each election district on the
10 internet.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD17014-01-0
