STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3562 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 29, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CARROLL, BENEDETTO, COLTON, MOSLEY, D'URSO, BLAKE, NIOU, RICHARDSON, PHEFFER AMATO, GLICK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to authorizing early voting The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Article 8 of the election law is amended by adding a new 2 title 6 to read as follows: 3 TITLE VI 4 EARLY VOTING 5 Section 8-600. Early voting procedures. 6 § 8-600. Early voting procedures. 1. For fourteen consecutive days 7 ending no later than the Friday preceding the date of every primary, 8 general and special election, a person may vote for a candidate for 9 public office in a primary, general or special election, and such early 10 voting practice may take place at such person's designated polling place 11 or as designated by and through a county board of elections under the 12 powers granted pursuant to this section on or before the effective date 13 of this section. 14 2. Each county board of elections shall establish permanent polling 15 places for early voting and shall provide at least two polling places in 16 each of the one hundred fifty assembly districts and such that no voter 17 shall have to travel more than forty miles to reach such polling place. 18 There shall be at least one polling place for every fifty thousand 19 voters in a county. Early voting shall be made available each day during 20 such period. 21 3. Each polling place shall be open to the public for early voting 22 from 7 A.M. until 8 P.M. on any business day and from 7 A.M. until 8 23 P.M. on any Saturday or Sunday during such early voting period. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01999-01-9

A. 3562 2 1 § 2. Section 4-117 of the election law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 1-a to read as follows: 3 1-a. The notice required by subdivision one of this section shall 4 include the dates, hours and locations of early voting for the general, 5 special and primary elections. 6 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 8-102 of the election law is amended by 7 adding a new paragraph (k) to read as follows: 8 (k) Voting at each polling place for early voting shall be conducted 9 in a manner consistent with the provisions of this article, with the 10 exception of the tabulation and proclamation of election results. 11 § 4. Section 8-104 of the election law is amended by adding a new 12 subdivision 7 to read as follows: 13 7. This section shall apply on all early voting days as provided for 14 in section 8-600 of this article. 15 § 5. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 8-508 of the election 16 law, as amended by chapter 200 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read 17 as follows: 18 (b) The second section of such report shall be reserved for the board 19 of inspectors to enter the name, address and registration serial number 20 of each person who is challenged on the day of election or any day in 21 which there is early voting pursuant to section 8-600 of this article, 22 together with the reason for the challenge. If no voters are chal- 23 lenged, the board of inspectors shall enter the words "No Challenges" 24 across the space reserved for such names. In lieu of preparing section 25 two of the challenge report, the board of elections may provide, next to 26 the name of each voter on the computer generated registration list, a 27 place for the inspectors of election to record the information required 28 to be entered in such section two, or provide at the end of such comput- 29 er generated registration list, a place for the inspectors of election 30 to enter such information. 31 § 6. The state board of elections shall promulgate all rules and regu- 32 lations necessary to effectuate the provisions of this act. 33 § 7. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 34 have become a law and shall begin with 2021 primary elections.

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