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NY S07116
Bill
Status
4/1/2025
Primary Sponsor
Cordell Cleare
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AI Summary
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Defines "nontabulating ballot marking device" as a voting machine that cannot count or transmit votes but can print voter selections on a paper ballot
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Defines "human readable paper ballot" as one where all candidates, proposals, and selections can be read without assistance beyond standard eyeglasses
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Requires every polling place to provide voters with two options: hand-marked paper ballots or ballots marked using a nontabulating ballot marking device
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Mandates that all paper ballots of the same kind for the same election district must be identical
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Allows voting machines purchased before the act's effective date to continue being used if they utilize individual, voter-verifiable paper ballots
Legislative Description
Enacts the "voting integrity and verification act of New York (VIVA NY)"; provides that each voter is entitled to the use of an individual, voter verifiable paper ballot of the voter's vote and the opportunity to mark it.
Last Action
REFERRED TO ELECTIONS
1/7/2026