New York Assembly Bill A01344 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1344 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SILLITTI -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to establishing the misde- meanor of interfering in the election process by electronic means The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new section 17-158 2 to read as follows: 3 § 17-158. Interfering in the election process by electronic means. Any 4 person who, with intent to interfere with an election, places or causes 5 to be placed, multiple calls by telephone or other electronic means, or 6 sends or causes to be sent, multiple messages by text, email, fax, 7 computer application, tablet application, telephone application or other 8 electronic means, or any combination thereof, to obstruct, prevent or 9 interfere with: 10 1. the reporting of poll results by any polling place; 11 2. the receipt of poll results by a local or state board of elections; 12 3. the ability of a political or party organization to place calls or 13 send messages used for the purpose of encouraging people to vote; or 14 4. the ability of a political or party organization to place calls or 15 send messages used for the purpose of arranging transportation for 16 people to or from their polling place, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 18 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02345-01-3