STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
11011
IN ASSEMBLY
September 9, 2020
___________
Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Thiele,
Palumbo) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the number of polling
sites for early voting in certain counties
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. There shall be so desig-
7 nated at least one early voting polling place for every full increment
8 of fifty thousand registered voters in each county; provided, however,
9 the number of early voting polling places in a county shall not be
10 required to be greater than seven, and a county with fewer than fifty
11 thousand voters shall have at least one early voting polling place; and
12 provided further that in counties with a population of one million or
13 more based on the latest federal decennial census, but outside cities
14 with a population of one million or more, based on the latest federal
15 decennial census, each town and city in such counties shall have at
16 least one polling place.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD17195-02-0
