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NY A07690
Bill
Status
9/20/2023
Primary Sponsor
Carl Heastie
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AI Summary
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Schedules the 2024 presidential primary election for April 2, 2024, and establishes two methods for delegate selection: Section 2-122-a allows states to combine presidential candidate votes, district-level delegate elections, and state committee appointments; Section 2-122-b mandates the Republican Party use statewide primary results with 3 delegates per congressional district plus at-large delegates.
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Allows ballot envelopes returned by mail between 2-7 days after election without a postmark to be cured as a curable defect, with voters attesting they mailed the envelope on or before election day; requires cure affirmations to be received within 7 business days after rejection notice or by election day, whichever is later.
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Permits any write-in votes for candidates to be counted unless they create an invalid overvote; establishes 4-day window to contest certificates filling designation vacancies; authorizes absentee and affidavit ballots to be canvassed at poll sites on election day.
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Requires full manual recounts to occur only after completion and announcement of required recanvass results in each applicable election district; establishes gender balance requirements (variance no greater than one between male and female delegate candidates) for delegate petitions.
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All provisions expire December 31, 2024, with sections 1-8 retroactively effective to July 1, 2023 if bill is signed after that date.
Legislative Description
Relates to the presidential primary, to provide for the election of delegates to a national party convention or a national party conference in 2024; schedules the presidential primary election for April 2, 2024; updates the political calendar accordingly; requires cure affirmations for curing ballots to be received by the board of elections no later than 7 business days after the board's mailing of the curable rejection notice or the day before the election, whichever is later; provides that any write-in vote for a candidate whether or not such candidate's name is on the ballot for that contest shall be counted for such candidate unless such write-in vote creates an invalid overvote in the contest; allows ballot envelopes without a postmark to be a curable defect; requires additional attestations to cure such defect; relates to the ability and proceeding to contest certain certificates to fill a vacancy in a designation; provides that absentee ballots may be canvassed at the poll site on election day; provides that no board of elections shall commence a full manual recount of a particular contest unless and until such board has completed and announced the results of the recanvas otherwise required, for each applicable election district.
Last Action
signed chap.474
9/20/2023