A4647-2011 Actions

• Jan 4, 2012: referred to election law
• Feb 4, 2011: referred to election law

A4647-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         4647
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  ASSEMBLY
 February 4, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. CAMARA, GIBSON, COOK, WRIGHT, CASTRO, JEFFRIES,
 BARRON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. AUBRY, MENG,  PEOPLES-STOKES,
 SCARBOROUGH,  SCHIMEL  --  read  once and referred to the Committee on
 Election Law
 

AN ACT to amend the election  law,  in  relation  to  qualifications  of
 voters convicted of a felony; and repealing certain provisions of such
 law relating thereto
 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1. Subdivisions 2, 3, 4 and 5 of section 5-106 of the election
 law are REPEALED and subdivision 6 is renumbered subdivision 2.
 

S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 5-400 of the election law, as amended by
 chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:

 1. A voter's registration, including the registration of  a  voter  in
 inactive  status,  shall  be  cancelled if, since the time of his OR HER
 last registration, he OR SHE:

 (a) Moved his OR HER residence outside the city or county in which  he
 OR SHE is registered.
 (b)  [Was convicted of a felony disqualifying him from voting pursuant
 to the provisions of section 5-106 of this article.
 (c)] Has been adjudicated an incompetent.
 [(d)] (C) Refused to take a challenge oath.
 [(e)] (D) Has died.
 [(f)] (E) Did not vote in any  election  conducted  by  the  board  of
 elections  during  the period ending with the second general election at
 which candidates for federal office are on the ballot after his  OR  HER
 name  was  placed in inactive status and for whom the board of elections
 did not, during such period, in any other way, receive  any  information
 that such voter still resides in the same county or city.
 [(g)]  (F)  Personally  requested to have his OR HER name removed from
 the list of registered voters.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01752-01-1
 
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 [(h)] (G) For any other reason, is no  longer  qualified  to  vote  as
 provided in this chapter.
 

S  3.  Subdivision  2 of section 5-708 of the election law is REPEALED
 and subdivisions 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are renumbered 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
 

S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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