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NY S01870

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

1/14/2025

Primary Sponsor

Mark Walczyk

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Reduces signature requirements for statewide independent candidates from 45,000 to 15,000 voters, with the per-congressional-district requirement dropping from 500 to 100 signatures
  • Lowers the vote threshold for a political organization to maintain official "party" status from 130,000 votes to 50,000 votes for governor or president, and changes the standard from "whichever is greater" to "whichever is lesser"
  • Establishes a fixed 12-week signature collection period for independent petitions running from the Monday before Memorial Day through the third Monday of August
  • Moves the independent petition filing deadline from 23 weeks before the general election to 6 weeks before the election
  • Sets the deadline for acceptance/declination certificates and vacancy-filling certificates at 7 weeks before the general election

Legislative Description

Relates to the number of signatures for independent nominating petitions; decreases the number of signatures and votes to 15,000 signatures for statewide candidates and 50,000 votes to maintain party ballot status; changes the petition period to 12 weeks and the petitioning time to May-August.

Last Action

REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

1/7/2026

Committee Referrals

Elections1/14/2025

Full Bill Text

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