Defines the term "party" as any political organization which at the last preceding election for governor polled at least fifty thousand votes for its candidate for governor.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1031
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 9, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, SANDERS -- 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 the definition of party
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1-104 of the election law, as
2 amended by section 10 of part ZZZ of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 3. The term "party" means any political organization which[, excluding
5 blank and void ballots, at the last preceding election for governor
6 received, at least two percent of the total votes cast for its candidate
7 for governor, or one hundred thirty thousand votes, whichever is great-
8 er, in the year in which a governor is elected and at least two percent
9 of the total votes cast for its candidate for president, or one hundred
10 thirty thousand votes, whichever is greater, in a year when a president
11 is elected] at the last preceding election for governor polled at least
12 fifty thousand votes for its candidate for governor.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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