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NY A00318

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/4/2023

Primary Sponsor

Linda Rosenthal

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Origin

Assembly

2023-2024 General Assembly

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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