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BILL NUMBER:S2030
Title of bill
An act to amend the election law, in relation to the deadline for obtaining application forms for absentee ballots by persons who are ill or physically disabled; who shall supply application forms; and limit on number of absentee ballots to be received on the day of the election
Purpose
To permit persons who are ill or physically disabled to apply for absentee ballots on election day and to delete obsolete restrictions on distribution of applications for absentee ballots.
Summary of provisions
Permits applications for absentee ballots to be supplied to and filed on the day of the election by voters who are ill or physically disabled. Provides no person may pick up more than one ballot on election day except for ballots of certain relatives. Deletes language which implies that inspectors at local registrations may give absentee ballot applications only to voters registered in that election district, and language which provides that only persons authorized by the voter can pick up an absentee ballot application.
Justification
Present law requires that absentee ballot applications be filed with the board of elections by the day before election day. The present deadline makes sense with respect to people who are casting absentee ballots because they will be out of town on election day. By definition, if they are in town on election day, they are not eligible to vote absentee. However, that restriction does not apply to people who are ill or physically disabled. If such a voter can arrange to have a person pick up his ballot on election day and bring it to him and then return the voted ballot to the board of elections before the close of the polls, there is no reason that the law should not permit that procedure. Those ballots will not be counted until after election day, which will afford candidates in close elections ample time to check eligibility. However, in order to prevent possible abuse, the bill provides that (except for ballot for close relatives) nobody may pick up more than one ballot on election day.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first of December next succeeding the date on which it shall become law.
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