New York Assembly Bill A02593 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2593 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 26, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring at least one form of electronic means to verify voter registration at every polling place The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 8-302 of the election law, as 2 amended by section 8 of part XX of chapter 55 of the laws of 2019, is 3 amended and a new subdivision 1-a is added to read as follows: 4 1-a. At all elections held pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, 5 at least one form of electronic verification of voter registration shall 6 be utilized. 7 2. The voter shall give the voter's name and the voter's residence 8 address to the inspectors. An inspector shall then loudly and distinctly 9 announce the name and residence of the voter and verify such through the 10 electronic means required under subdivision one-a of this section. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06241-01-3