STATE OF NEW YORK
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10941
IN ASSEMBLY
August 17, 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
unofficial election results
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 9-126 of the
2 election law, as amended by chapter 334 of the laws of 2013, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (b) The board of elections shall remain open after the close of the
5 polls and shall receive and tabulate the voting results as they are
6 received. The board of elections shall make such unofficial results
7 available to the media and the state board of elections, and shall post
8 running totals for each election district in a public place and on the
9 internet as the results become known to it.
10 § 2. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section 9-209 of the election
11 law, as amended by chapter 104 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read
12 as follows:
13 (e) Upon completing the casting and canvassing of ballots as hereina-
14 bove provided for [any] each election district, the central board of
15 inspectors shall thereupon[, as nearly as practicable in the manner
16 provided in this chapter for absentee ballots,] verify the number of
17 ballots so cast, tally the votes so cast, add such tally to the previous
18 tally of all votes cast in such election district, and announce the
19 result.
20 § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 9-209 of the election law is amended by
21 adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
22 (f) Upon completing the casting and canvassing of absentee, military,
23 and special ballots for each election district, the board of elections
24 shall make absentee results available to the media and the state board
25 of elections, and shall post running totals for each election district
26 in a public place and on the internet.
27 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD17015-01-0
