Increases the number of days permitted for early voting; permits early voting beginning on the seventeenth day prior to any general, primary, run-off primary or special election.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1550
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- 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 increasing the number
of days permitted for early voting
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 8-600 of the election law, as
2 added by chapter 6 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
3 1. Beginning the [tenth] seventeenth day prior to any general, prima-
4 ry, run-off primary pursuant to subdivision one of section 6-162 of this
5 chapter or special election for any public or party position except for
6 such an election held pursuant to title two of article six or article
7 fifteen of this chapter, and ending on and including the second day
8 prior to such general, primary, run-off primary or special election for
9 such public office or party position, persons duly registered and eligi-
10 ble to vote at such election shall be permitted to vote as provided in
11 this title. The board of elections shall establish procedures, subject
12 to approval of the state board of elections, to ensure that persons who
13 vote during the early voting period shall not be permitted to vote
14 subsequently in the same election.
15 § 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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