Requires the state board of elections to maintain on its official website electronic voter registration forms which contain the county board of elections' address. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: ELECTIONS

Provides that whenever a contiguous property of a college or university contains three hundred or more registrants, the polling place designated for such election district shall be on such contiguous property or at a location approved by the college or university. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: ELECTIONS

Provides that party nominations for an office to be filled at a special election shall be made by a majority vote of a quorum of the members of the county committee last elected in the political subdivision or, if such office is in a district containing all or part of two or more counties outside the city of New York or in a district partly within and partly without such city, or if such office is to be elected by all the voters of a county having a population of over seven hundred fifty thousand such nomination may be made in the manner prescribed by the rules of the party; provides with respect to an election to fill certain vacancies that if such office is to be filled in a district containing all or part of two or more counties outside the city of New York or in a district partly within and partly without such city or if such office is to be elected by all the voters of such city or all the voters of a county having a population of over seven hundred fifty thousand, the election shall be by a majority vote of a quorum of the members of such other committee as the rules of the party may provide. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Prohibits sex offenders from casting ballots at schools; requires county board of elections to provide an alternate polling place. / Sponsor: O'MARA Committee: ELECTIONS

Enacts the "early voting act"; provides to any person early voting for a candidate for public office in a general, primary or special election for any public or party office by paper ballot to take place no sooner than fourteen business days and up to and including the day prior to such election; provides that such voting shall take place at such person's county board of elections; requires availability and access to ballots for persons with disabilities. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: ELECTIONS

Enacts the New York state clean election and campaign finance enforcement reform act. / Sponsor: SMITH Committee: ELECTIONS

Requires town caucuses of a political party to be convened no earlier than four weeks before the last day to file a certificate of a party nomination made at such caucus; provides that with a certificate of nomination there also be filed a list of enrolled members of the party who participated in such caucus, the minutes of the caucus, and a statement of where the notice of the caucus was published or posted. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Conforms the punishment for crimes under the election law to similar crimes in the penal law; provides that all misdemeanors under article 17 shall be class A misdemeanors, and all felonies shall be class E felonies within the meaning of section 55.10 of the penal law. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Establishes new contribution limits, expands the types of organizations prohibited from making contributions and aggregates certain contributions. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: ELECTIONS

Makes the suppression of voters a civil violation. / Sponsor: STEWART-COUSINS Committee: ELECTIONS

Provides that a person shall be disqualified from an election for which the filing of an annual statement of financial disclosure is required if such person fails to make a timely filing of such financial disclosure statement; provides a method for the filling of vacancies which occur as a result of such disqualifications. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Designates state and city universities of New York as participating agencies for voter registration form distribution and assistance; permits independent institutions to do the same upon request; requires SUNY and CUNY independent institutions to offer each applicant an application for an absentee ballot. / Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: ELECTIONS

Prohibits the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, comptroller, any state legislator, any elected county, city, town or village official, or any person who currently holds elective office from serving as a delegate to the constitutional convention. / Sponsor: ROBACH Committee: ELECTIONS

Requires voter approval for the abolition or modification of term limits for certain elected offices; requires resolution of local legislative body followed by a voter referendum; sets procedures. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: ELECTIONS

Relates to allowing parolees the right to register for and vote at any election. / Sponsor: ADAMS Committee: ELECTIONS

Authorizes the board of elections to cause absentee ballots received by it by common carrier to be cast and counted provided such ballot was sent not later than the day before the election and received by such board of elections not later than seven days following the day of election. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Provides that a postpaid business reply envelope for the return to the board of elections of a voted absentee ballot be provided with each absentee ballot which is mailed to an applicant for an absentee ballot. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Permits that any enrolled member of a party who resides within the county and the assembly district which contains the election district from which the party position of member of county committee shall be elected, shall be eligible to file written objections to a designating petition, petition for opportunity to ballot, certificate of acceptance, certificate of declination and certificate of substitution relating to such party position. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Requires concurrent resolutions or laws containing statewide ballot proposals to include the form of submission on the ballot to a vote of the people, which form to be limited to a short title of the subject matter in plain language, an abstract concisely stating the purpose and effect of the proposal and amortization period and total debt service where appropriate and the complete text abstract and text to be available for public inspection at the polling place; makes related provisions for non-statewide ballot proposals, with form and abstract to be prepared by the office of the counsel of the county, city, town or village. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Provides for the re-enfranchisement of voters with felony convictions by repealing certain provisions in the election law. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: ELECTIONS