Requires each county board of elections to distribute registration application forms to the public through distribution to public buildings, banks, post offices and various other facilities that the public may frequent.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1062
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 22, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- 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 making mail registra-
tion forms available in public buildings and other public places
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 5-210 of the
2 election law, as amended by chapter 179 of the laws of 2005, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (a) Application forms for use pursuant to this section shall be
5 furnished by a county board of elections to any person requesting such
6 form. Application forms sent outside of the United States to a country
7 other than Canada or Mexico, shall be sent airmail. Each county board of
8 elections shall also cause such application forms to be as widely and
9 freely distributed as possible. Each county board of elections shall
10 make application forms available to the public through distribution to
11 federal, state and local governmental buildings. Such buildings may
12 include, but not be limited to banks, post offices, public libraries,
13 local offices of the department of motor vehicles, unemployment insur-
14 ance offices and offices of each local department of social services.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06333-01-9
