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NY A01542
Bill
Status
Introduced
1/10/2025
Primary Sponsor
Linda Rosenthal
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AI Summary
- Permits voters to take photographs of themselves and their own ballots (including absentee ballots) while in a privacy booth
- Allows voters to share and disseminate ballot photos on social media, text messages, and other electronic communication platforms
- Makes it a misdemeanor for any person to interfere with a voter taking a permitted ballot photograph
- Removes the prohibition on voters showing their own marked ballots, while maintaining the ban on soliciting others to reveal their ballot contents
- Adds an exception to the ballot identification law to allow self-photographs as permitted under the new provision
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
1/7/2026
Committee Referrals
Election Law1/28/2025
Education1/10/2025
Full Bill Text
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