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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5475
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       May 2, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  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 opportunity  to  ballot
          committee to receive notices
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 6-164 of the election law, as amended by chapter 16
     2  of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 6-164. Primary, uncontested; opportunity to ballot. Enrolled members
     4  of a party entitled to vote in the nomination of a candidate for  public
     5  office  or  the  election of a candidate for party position in a primary
     6  election of such party, and equal in number to at least  the  number  of
     7  signers  required  to  designate a candidate for such office or position
     8  may file with the officer or board with whom or which are  filed  desig-
     9  nating  petitions  for  such office or position a petition requesting an
    10  opportunity to write in the name of a candidate or candidates, who  need
    11  not  be specified, for such office or position. Upon the receipt of such
    12  a petition, such office or position shall be deemed  contested  and  the
    13  primary  ballots of the party shall afford an opportunity to vote there-
    14  on.  Requests for an opportunity to write in the names of candidates for
    15  two or more offices or positions may be included in the  same  petition.
    16  Such  petitions  shall  be subject to objections and court determination
    17  thereof in the same manner  as  designating  petitions  so  far  as  the
    18  provisions therefor are applicable. All required notices shall be served
    19  on  the members of the committee named in the petition, and such commit-
    20  tee shall have capacity to bring a proceeding under this chapter  as  if
    21  such  committee  was  a candidate named on a petition.  A signature to a
    22  petition for an opportunity to ballot in primary elections made  earlier
    23  than  sixteen days before the last day to file designating petitions for
    24  the primary election shall not be counted.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect on the fifteenth day of December after
    26  it shall have become a law.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10642-01-9