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NY S07116

Bill

Status

Introduced

4/1/2025

Primary Sponsor

Cordell Cleare

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Defines "nontabulating ballot marking device" as a voting machine that cannot count or transmit votes but can print voter selections on a paper ballot

  • Defines "human readable paper ballot" as one where all candidates, proposals, and selections can be read without assistance beyond standard eyeglasses

  • Requires every polling place to provide voters with two options: hand-marked paper ballots or ballots marked using a nontabulating ballot marking device

  • Mandates that all paper ballots of the same kind for the same election district must be identical

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Elections1/7/2026
Rules6/13/2025
Elections4/1/2025

Full Bill Text

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