What's happening
This bill allows opportunity to ballot committees to receive required notices and bring legal proceedings like a candidate.
Why it matters
Strengthens the role of opportunity to ballot committees. by allowing them to receive all required legal notices, giving these groups the same procedural rights as official candidates in election disputes.
Improves fairness and transparency. for party members seeking to write in candidates during primaries, ensuring their representatives (the committee) are kept informed and can actively protect their interests.
Empowers grassroots political participation. by letting opportunity to ballot committees initiate court proceedings, making it easier for party members to challenge or defend ballot access issues without needing a named candidate.
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Let Ballot Committees Get Notices
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
7 Co-sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Substituted by S5475
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.377
- Rules report cal.377
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Referred to election law
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Notify Ballot Committees Faster
Signed by Governor · Sponsor Rachel May
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6714
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 15, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GALEF, DICKENS, BLAKE, GOTTFRIED, D'URSO, NIOU, LAWRENCE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to opportunity to ballot committee to receive notices
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 6-164 of the election law, as amended by chapter 16 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
§ 6-164. Primary, uncontested; opportunity to ballot. Enrolled members of a party entitled to vote in the nomination of a candidate for public office or the election of a candidate for party position in a primary election of such party, and equal in number to at least the number of signers required to designate a candidate for such office or position may file with the officer or board with whom or which are filed designating petitions for such office or position a petition requesting an opportunity to write in the name of a candidate or candidates, who need not be specified, for such office or position. Upon the receipt of such a petition, such office or position shall be deemed contested and the primary ballots of the party shall afford an opportunity to vote thereon. Requests for an opportunity to write in the names of candidates for two or more offices or positions may be included in the same petition. Such petitions shall be subject to objections and court determination thereof in the same manner as designating petitions so far as the provisions therefor are applicable. All required notices shall be served on the members of the committee named in the petition, and such committee shall have capacity to bring a proceeding under this chapter as if such committee was a candidate named on a petition. A signature to a petition for an opportunity to ballot in primary elections made earlier than sixteen days before the last day to file designating petitions for the primary election shall not be counted.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the fifteenth day of December after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10642-01-9
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