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NY A00318
Bill
Status
Introduced
1/4/2023
Primary Sponsor
Linda Rosenthal
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AI Summary
- Allows voters to photograph themselves and their own ballot, or absentee ballot, while in a privacy booth
- Permits voters to share and disseminate ballot photographs on social media, including online communities, text messages, and electronic image transmission
- Makes it a misdemeanor for any person to interfere with a voter's right to take photographs under this provision
- Modifies existing election law provisions to remove language prohibiting voters from showing their ballot to others and carves out an exception for photography allowed under this bill
- Takes effect immediately upon enactment
Legislative Description
Allows voters to take photographs of themselves and their ballot, or absentee ballot, while in a privacy booth, and to share and disseminate such photographs on social media.
Last Action
referred to election law
1/3/2024
Committee Referrals
Election Law1/4/2023
Full Bill Text
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