New York Assembly Bill A00335 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 335 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 4, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT providing for the state board of elections to undertake a study on the feasibility of permitting voting by mail, telephone and/or the internet and to establish pilot projects relating thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The state board of elections shall undertake a study on the 2 feasibility of permitting voting by mail, telephone and/or the internet. 3 Such study shall include but not be limited to evaluation of the ability 4 of verifying votes by mail, telephone and/or the internet and the impact 5 on the number of the electorate voting in primary and general elections. 6 Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, at any 7 primary or general election during the undertaking of such study, the 8 state board of elections may provide a pilot program permitting voting 9 by mail, telephone and/or the internet. The state board of elections 10 shall submit such study including recommendations to the governor and 11 state legislature within twenty-four months of the effective date of 12 this act. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02210-01-3