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NY S01844
Bill
Status
Introduced
1/14/2025
Primary Sponsor
Brad Hoylman-Sigal
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AI Summary
- Allows voters to photograph themselves and their own ballot (including absentee ballots) while in a privacy booth
- Permits sharing and disseminating ballot photographs on social media, text messages, and other electronic communication platforms
- Makes it a misdemeanor for any person to interfere with a voter taking such photographs
- Removes the prohibition on voters voluntarily showing their own marked ballots, while maintaining the ban on soliciting others to reveal their ballot contents
- Exempts ballot selfies from existing laws against marking or identifying one's ballot
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 ELECTIONS
1/14/2025
Committee Referrals
Elections1/14/2025
Full Bill Text
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