 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2428
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 24, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- 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 ballot proposals
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  7-110 of the election law, as amended by chapter
     2  647 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 7-110. Ballots; form for ballot proposals.  Ballot  proposals  shall
     4  appear  on  the  voting  machine or ballot in a separate section. At the
     5  left of, or below or above,  each  proposal  shall  appear  two  [voting
     6  levers  or  two]  voting  ovals or squares[, each at least one-half inch
     7  square]. Next to the first [lever or square] shall be printed  the  word
     8  "Yes,"  and  next  to  the second [lever or square] shall be printed the
     9  word "No." The proposals shall be numbered consecutively on  the  voting
    10  machine  or ballot. The number of each proposal shall appear in front of
    11  its designation as an amendment, proposition or question in the  follow-
    12  ing  form:    "Proposal  one, an amendment; proposal two, a proposition;
    13  proposal three, a question".  If the ballot proposal section appears  on
    14  the  ballot  face  opposite  the  candidates,  a ballot instruction in a
    15  format provided by the state board of elections,  which  may  include  a
    16  graphic arrow, shall indicate the ballot is two-sided.
    17    §  2.  This  act  shall  take effect on the fifteenth of December next
    18  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01045-01-9
Relates to ballot proposals

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