STATE OF NEW YORK
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7597
IN SENATE
January 29, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 requiring counties
outside of a city with a population of one million or more to allow
voters to utilize any early voting site in the county
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 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 3. Any voter may vote at any polling place for early voting estab-
4 lished pursuant to subdivision two of this section in the county where
5 such voter is registered to vote; provided, however, if in a city with a
6 population of one million or more it is impractical to provide each
7 polling place for early voting all of the election district ballots or
8 if early voting at any such polling place makes ensuring that no voter
9 has not previously voted early during such election, the board of
10 elections of such city may assign election districts to a particular
11 early voting poll site. All voters in each county shall have one or more
12 polling places at which they are eligible to vote throughout the early
13 voting period on a substantially equal basis. If the board of elections
14 in a city with a population of one million or more does not agree by
15 majority vote to plan to assign election districts to early voting poll
16 sites, all voters in the county must be able to vote at any poll site
17 for early voting in the county.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14965-03-0
