What's happening
This bill allows opportunity to ballot committees to receive legal notices and file proceedings like candidates in primary elections.
Why it matters
Strengthens the rights of opportunity to ballot committees. by allowing them to receive official legal notices, putting them on equal procedural footing with named candidates in primary election challenges or disputes.
Empowers grassroots or insurgent campaigns. by giving these committees the explicit legal capacity to file court proceedings, which can help them defend their rights or challenge decisions that could otherwise exclude them from the ballot.
Could increase transparency and fairness in the primary process. by ensuring all parties involved in opportunity to ballot petitions are properly notified of legal actions and can participate meaningfully in legal proceedings, potentially reducing procedural loopholes that favor established candidates.
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Notify Ballot Committees Faster
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History
- Signed chap.440
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.377
- Substituted for A6714
- Referred to election law
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 59–3
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.903
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- Referred to elections
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.
Let Ballot Committees Get Notices
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Sandy Galef
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5475
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 2, 2019
Introduced by Sen. MAY -- 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 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.
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the election law, in relation to opportunity to ballot committee to receive notices
Purpose
The purpose of this legislation is to ensure that opportunity to ballot committee members have capacity to bring proceedings.
Summary of provisions
Section 1. Section 6-164 of the election law, as amended by chapter 16 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows: 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.
Section 2. Establishes the effective date.
Justification
This legislation ensures that those appointed as members of the Commit- tee to Receive Notices on an Opportunity to Ballot Petition have the same access to judicial relief as candidates, ensuring fairness in ballot access and elections.
Fiscal impact
None
Legislative history
2017-18: A.9984 Passed Assembly
Effective date
December 15th after enactment
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