STATE OF NEW YORK
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3145--A
Cal. No. 164
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 4, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections -- reported
favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report,
ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the
Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading,
amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of
third reading
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to ballot proposals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 7-110 of the election law, as amended by chapter
2 647 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 7-110. Ballots; form for ballot proposals. Ballot proposals shall
4 appear on the voting machine or ballot in a separate section. At the
5 left of, or below or above, each proposal shall appear two voting levers
6 or two voting squares, each at least one-half inch square. Next to the
7 first lever or square shall be printed the word "Yes," and next to the
8 second lever or square shall be printed the word "No." The proposals
9 shall be numbered consecutively on the voting machine or ballot. The
10 number of each proposal shall appear in front of its designation as an
11 amendment, proposition or question in the following form: "Proposal
12 one, an amendment; proposal two, a proposition; proposal three, a ques-
13 tion". If the ballot proposal section appears on the ballot face oppo-
14 site the candidates, a ballot instruction in a format provided by the
15 state board of elections, which may include a graphic arrow, shall indi-
16 cate the ballot is two-sided.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the fifteenth of December next
18 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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