NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A5494
SPONSOR: Angelino TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the election law, in relation to requiring the county
seat in Delaware county to have at least one polling place designated
for early voting
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To ensure that there is an accessible early voting site in Delhi, the
county seat of Delaware County
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Adds the County Seat in Delaware County to the list of
locations required to have an early voting site
Section 2. is the effective date
JUSTIFICATION:
Current law requires the municipality with the highest population in
each county to host an early voting site. This requirement is not prac-
tical in all cases depending on the geographical location of said muni-
cipality in relation to the remainder of the county. This bill seeks to
allow an early voting site in Delhi, the county seat in Delaware County
in order to make it easier for voters to participate in early voting. A
similar exception has been made in Washington County already and for
similar reasons.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5494
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 13, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. ANGELINO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring the county
seat in Delaware county to have at least one polling place designated
for early voting
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 8-600 of the
2 election law, as amended by chapter 781 of the laws of 2021, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (b) The largest city in the county or, if there is no city in the
5 county, the municipality with the highest population in each county
6 based on the latest federal decennial census, or the county seat in
7 Washington county, or the county seat in Delaware county, shall have at
8 least one polling place designated for early voting, and to the extent
9 practicable if such city or municipality has public transportation
10 routes, such polling place shall be situated along such transportation
11 routes.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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