New York Senate Bill S01113 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1113 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 10, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BORRELLO -- 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 requiring electors to vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidates in a manner representing the plurality of votes in each congressional district The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 12-106 of the election law is amended to read as 2 follows: 3 § 12-106. Electoral college; vote of the electors. Immediately after 4 the organization of the electoral college, the electors shall then and 5 there vote by ballot for president and vice president, but no elector 6 shall vote for more than one person who is a resident of this state. 7 Two electoral votes shall be given to the statewide winner and one elec- 8 toral vote shall be given to each congressional district based on the 9 plurality of votes in such district. They shall name in separate ballots 10 the persons voted for as president and vice president. They shall make 11 and sign six certificates of all the votes given by them, each of which 12 certificates shall contain two distinct lists, one with the votes for 13 president and one with the votes for vice president. There shall be 14 annexed to each of the certificates one of the lists of electors which 15 shall have been furnished to them by the state board of elections. They 16 shall seal up the certificates so made and certify upon each that the 17 lists of all the votes of this state given for president and vice presi- 18 dent are contained therein. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all 20 electors for all elections occurring on and after such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03910-01-3