Allows absentee voting for persons unable to vote due to duties, occupation, business, personal matters or studies; no agent may collect more than 15 ballots except with approval of two inspectors representing different political parties.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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145
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to absentee voting quali-
fications
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 8-400 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 63 of the laws of 2010, paragraph (c) as amended by
3 chapter 375 of the laws of 2015, is amended and a new subdivision 11 is
4 added to read as follows:
5 1. A qualified voter may vote as an absentee voter under this chapter
6 if, on the occurrence of any village election conducted by the board of
7 elections, primary election, special election, general election or New
8 York city community school board district or city of Buffalo school
9 district election, he or she expects to be[:
10 (a) absent from the county of his or her residence, or, if a resident
11 of the city of New York absent from said city; or
12 (b) unable to appear personally at the polling place of the election
13 district in which he or she is a qualified voter because of illness or
14 physical disability or duties related to the primary care of one or more
15 individuals who are ill or physically disabled, or because he or she
16 will be or is a patient in a hospital; or
17 (c) a resident or patient of a veterans health administration hospi-
18 tal; or
19 (d) absent from his or her voting residence because he or she is
20 detained in jail awaiting action by a grand jury or awaiting trial, or
21 confined in jail or prison after a conviction for an offense other than
22 a felony, provided that he or she is qualified to vote in the election
23 district of his or her residence] unable to vote in person due to
24 duties, occupation, business, personal matters or studies.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 11. No single agent shall collect more than fifteen absentee ballots,
2 except upon application and approval of two inspectors representing
3 different political parties.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
5 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
6 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
7 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
8 completed on or before such effective date.
