S7466-2011 - NY Senate Open Legislation - Increases the number of registrants an election district may contain with the approval of the county board of elections

Increases the number of registrants an election district may contain with the approval of the county board of elections.

Sponsor: O'MARA / Co-sponsor(s): LARKIN / Committee: RULES
Law Section: Election Law / Law: Amd S4-100, El L

S7466-2011 Actions

Jun 21, 2012: COMMITTED TO RULES
Jun 6, 2012: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
Jun 5, 2012: 2ND REPORT CAL.
Jun 4, 2012: 1ST REPORT CAL.1003
May 23, 2012: REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

S7466-2011 Meetings

Elections: May 28, 2012, Elections: Jun 4, 2012

S7466-2011 Calendars

Floor Calendar: Jun 5, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Jun 6, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Jun 11, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Jun 12, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Jun 13, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Jun 14, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Jun 18, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Jun 19, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Jun 20, 2012 , Floor Calendar: Jun 21, 2012

S7466-2011 Votes

VOTE: COMMITTEE VOTE: - Elections - Jun 4, 2012

Ayes (7): O'Mara, Ball, Gallivan, Nozzolio, Ranzenhofer, Addabbo, Carlucci
Ayes W/R (1): Dilan

S7466-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S7466

TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the election law, in relation to increasing the number
of registrants an election district may contain with the approval of
the county board of elections

PURPOSE OF THE BILL:
This bill would raise the election district registrant enrollment from
a maximum of 1,150 registrants to 3,000.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 of the bill would amend Election Law � 4-100(3)(a) revises
the definition of an "election district" to expand its maximum
registrants from eleven hundred fifty to three thousand.

Section 2 of the bill provides for an immediate effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:
Upon enactment this legislation would raise the limit of voters
allowed in every election district from 1,150 voters to 3,000. The
current election district registrant enrollment limits were prescribed
based on the fact that the old lever voter machines were not capable
of handling more than 1,000 votes per election; thus a strict limit of
1,150 voters per district was necessary. The new optical scanners will
read and hold up to approximately 4,000 ballots/voters per machine.
Therefore, this change in the law aims to serve as mandate relief to
municipalities by allowing them to consolidate districts and reduce
costs in many areas, including: hiring fewer election inspectors;
fewer ballots to order; and requiring less time testing ballots.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new proposal.

BUDGET IMPLICATIONS AND LOCAL IMPACT:
None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
The bill would take effect immediately.

S7466-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
                                          7466
 I N  SENATE
 May 23, 2012
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- 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 increasing  the  number
 of  registrants  an election district may contain with the approval of
 the county board of elections
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section  1.  Paragraph  a  of  subdivision  3  of section 4-100 of the
 election law, as amended by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is  amended
 to read as follows:

 a.  Each  election  district  shall  be in compact form and may not be
 partly within and partly without a ward, town, city, a village which has
 five thousand or more inhabitants and is wholly within one  town,  or  a
 county  legislative,  assembly,  senatorial  or  congressional district.
 Except as provided in paragraph b of this subdivision, election district
 boundaries, other than those boundaries which are coterminous  with  the
 boundaries  of those political subdivisions mentioned in this paragraph,
 must be streets, rivers, railroad lines or  other  permanent  character
 istics  of the landscape which are clearly visible to any person without
 the need to use any technical or mechanical device. An election district
 shall contain not more than nine hundred  fifty  registrants  (excluding
 registrants  in  inactive  status)  or,  with the approval of the county
 board of elections, not more than [eleven hundred fifty] THREE  THOUSAND
 registrants (excluding registrants in inactive status), but any election
 district may be divided for the convenience of the voters.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15965-01-2

S7466-2011: Increases the number of registrants an election district may contain with the approval of the county board of elections