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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5447--C
            Cal. No. 366
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       May 6, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections  --  recommitted
          to the Committee on Elections in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended

          and recommitted  to  said  committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered  to  first  and
          second  report,  ordered  to  a  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  the  alteration  of
          election  districts  by  the board of elections; and to repeal certain
          provisions of such law relating thereto
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  4-100 of the election law is
     2  amended to read as follows:
     3    2. The creation, consolidation, division  or  alteration  of  election

     4  districts  shall  be  done  by the [legislative body of the city or town
     5  within which the election district is contained except in the cities  of
     6  Buffalo and New York and the counties of Monroe, Nassau, and Suffolk. In
     7  the  cities  of Buffalo and New York, and the counties of Monroe, Nassau
     8  and Suffolk, and for any other town or city, upon  the  request  of  its
     9  legislative body, the creation, consolidation, division or alteration of
    10  election districts shall be done by the] board of elections.
    11    §  2. Subdivision 5 of section 4-104 of the election law is amended by
    12  adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
    13    (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, polling plac-
    14  es designated for any one such election district that will be  utilizing

    15  any  voting machine or system certified for use in New York state pursu-
    16  ant to chapter one hundred eighty-one of the laws of two thousand  five,
    17  may  be the polling place of any other contiguous district or districts,
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10566-06-0
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     1  provided the voting system used in such polling place produces  separate
     2  and distinct vote totals for each election district voting in such poll-
     3  ing place on such voting machine or system.
     4    §  3. Subdivision 6 of section 4-104 of the election law is amended to
     5  read as follows:

     6    6. Each polling place designated, whenever practicable, shall be situ-
     7  ated on the main or ground floor of the premises selected. It  shall  be
     8  of  sufficient  area to admit and comfortably accommodate [at least ten]
     9  voters [at one time and to allow  for  the  placement  in  such  meeting
    10  place,  of  booths,  furniture  and  equipment,  as  provided by law] in
    11  numbers consistent with the deployment of  voting  systems  and  privacy
    12  booths, pursuant to 9 NYCRR 6210.19.  Such deployment of voting systems,
    13  election  workers and election resources shall be in a sufficient number
    14  to accommodate the numbers of voters eligible to vote  in  such  polling
    15  place.
    16    § 4. Subdivision 6 of section 4-100 of the election law is REPEALED.

    17    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.