Relates to the calculation of voting power for committee members in districts that have changed or new districts since the last preceding gubernatorial election.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7853
IN SENATE
January 3, 2024
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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 the calculation of
voting power for committee members in districts that have changed or
new districts
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 2-104 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 260 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. The county committee of each party shall be constituted by the
5 election in each election district within such county of at least two
6 members and of such additional members as the rules of the county
7 committee of the party within the county or the statement filed pursuant
8 hereto may provide for such district, proportional to the party vote in
9 the district for governor at the last preceding gubernatorial election,
10 or in case the boundaries of such district have been changed or a new
11 district has been created since the last preceding gubernatorial
12 election, proportional to the party vote [cast for member of assembly or
13 in the event there was no election for member of assembly, then propor-
14 tional to the number of enrolled voters of such party in such district
15 on the list of enrolled voters last published by the board of elections]
16 in the district for governor at the last preceding gubernatorial
17 election multiplied by the percentage of registered voters from the
18 former election district that are contained in the new election
19 district, excluding voters in inactive status. In a county in which no
20 additional members are provided for by the rules of the county committee
21 or the statement filed pursuant hereto the voting power of each member
22 shall be in proportion to such party vote or, if the election district
23 which such member represents was created or changed since the last
24 preceding gubernatorial election [for member of assembly], proportional
25 to [such party enrollment] the party vote in the district for governor
26 at the last preceding gubernatorial election multiplied by the percent-
27 age of registered voters from the former election district that are
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10169-01-3
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1 contained in the new election district. In a county in which additional
2 members are so provided for, on the basis of the party vote or enroll-
3 ment in election districts within such county, each member shall have
4 one vote. Each member of a county committee shall be an enrolled voter
5 of the party residing in the county and the assembly district from which
6 or in the assembly district containing the election district in which
7 such member is elected except that a member of a county committee who,
8 as a result of an alteration of assembly district lines, no longer
9 resides within such assembly district may continue to serve for the
10 balance of the term to which he was elected.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
