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A08858 Summary:

BILL NOA08858A
 
SAME ASSAME AS S02951-A
 
SPONSORCarroll
 
COSPNSREnglebright, Dickens, Gottfried, Zebrowski, Hevesi, Simon, Paulin, Cruz, Epstein, Dinowitz
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §5-210, El L
 
Reduces the time for mailing and receipt of registration application to constitutional minimum.
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A08858 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         8858--A
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 19, 2022
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. CARROLL, ENGLEBRIGHT, DICKENS, GOTTFRIED, ZEBROW-
          SKI,  HEVESI, SIMON, PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Election  Law  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to voter registration

          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 5-210  of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  255  of  the  laws  of 2015, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3.  Completed  application  forms,  when  received  by  any  board  of
     5  elections  and,  with  respect  to  application forms promulgated by the
     6  federal election  commission,  when  received  by  the  state  board  of
     7  elections,  or  showing  a  dated cancellation mark of the United States
     8  Postal Service or contained in an envelope showing such a dated  cancel-
     9  lation  mark  which  is  not later than the [twenty-fifth] fifteenth day
    10  before the next  ensuing  primary,  general  or  special  election,  and
    11  received  no  later than the [twentieth] tenth day before such election,
    12  or delivered in person to such board of elections  not  later  than  the
    13  tenth  day before [a special] such election, shall entitle the applicant
    14  to vote in such election, if he or she is otherwise qualified, provided,
    15  however, such applicant shall not vote on a voting machine until his  or
    16  her  identity  is verified. Any board of elections receiving an applica-
    17  tion form from a person who does not reside in its jurisdiction but  who
    18  does  reside elsewhere in the state of New York, shall forthwith forward
    19  such application form to the proper board of elections.  Each  board  of
    20  elections  shall  make  an  entry  on  each  such form of the date it is
    21  received by such board.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06190-02-2
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