Elections

Provides for automatic voter registration and pre-registration for persons applying for certain department of motor vehicles documentation, and for persons applying for or re-enrolling in Medicaid; allows individuals to decline such automatic registration and pre-registration.

Provides for automatic voter registration and pre-registration for persons applying for certain department of motor vehicles documentation, and for persons applying for or re-enrolling in Medicaid; allows individuals to decline such automatic registration and pre-registration.

Includes certain persons of Middle Eastern and North African heritage and speakers of Haitian Creole as language minorities.

Requires a commissioner of a board of elections to meet certain qualifications before their appointment which shall include, but not be limited to, the qualifications prescribed by section three of the public officers law, and demonstrated experience in election administration or other management, operations, or administrative experience in the public, non-profit, or private sector as deemed sufficient by the board.

Increases the term of office of an election commissioner from two to four years beginning January first of each odd numbered year.

Requires a commissioner of a board of elections to meet certain qualifications before their appointment which shall include, but not be limited to, the qualifications prescribed by section three of the public officers law, and demonstrated experience in election administration or other management, operations, or administrative experience in the public, non-profit, or private sector as deemed sufficient by the board.

Relates to designating early polling places.

Makes commissioners full time employees of boards outside the city of New York.

Relates to voting rights and access for incarcerated individuals; authorizes polling places to be available at correctional facilities and local facilities; requires such facilities to provide persons detained or confined in such facilities access to register to vote or apply for an absentee ballot; requires voting information to be included in the inmate handbook.

Authorizes the public campaign finance board to accept an application/certification form jointly signed by candidates for governor and lieutenant governor for eligibility to participate in public matching funds.

Provides for the notification of individuals when their address confidentiality time period is expiring no later than six months prior to such expiration; provides that such notification shall include information on how to reapply.

Requires the board of elections to notify victims of domestic violence whose registration is maintained as confidential of the expiration of the confidentiality of such registration records; requires such notice to include information on the application process to extend such four-year period.

Relates to providing translators at certain polling place locations if fifteen percent of the number of voting age citizens who speak the same language other than English at home reside in the district where such polling place is located.

Includes a statement on the envelopes of ballots for early mail voters, absentee voters and special presidential voters for signature affirmation.

Requires disclosure of social media posts that are paid for by a campaign; authorizes the state board of elections to promulgate certain regulations.

Requires that subpoenas issued relating to election matters be served with a separate informational sheet that summarizes why the subpoena has been issued.

Authorizes electronic absentee ballot applications for military voters and special federal voters; removes requirements that the federal post card application form be included with certain ballot application and ballots; requires institutions of higher education to provide students studying abroad with information on how to vote from abroad.

Sets the timeline for candidate declination from ten days to seven days.

Sets the timeline for candidate declination from ten days to seven days.

Authorizes county boards of elections to establish county-wide polling places where any person entitled to vote in such county by personal appearance may so vote on the day of a primary election or general election, subject to approval by the state board of elections.

Requires certain political communications to include provenance data for all audios, images or videos used in such communications; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon the expiration thereof.

Establishes an election security navigator program within the state board of elections to provide assistance for local boards of elections in mitigating cybersecurity threats, improving physical and operational preparedness, and enhancing public confidence in the integrity of elections.

Provides that the ballots of deceased military personnel shall be counted toward the election for which they were cast.

Removes designating letters for rows and columns on ballots.

Establishes portable polling locations for early voting; provides that a county board of elections may establish one or more portable polling locations.

Prohibits deceptive practices and the suppression of voters.

Enacts the democracy preservation act; prohibits contributions by foreign-influenced business entities; requires certification.

Enacts the democracy preservation act; prohibits contributions by foreign-influenced business entities; requires certification.

Relates to mandatory training curriculum for election commissioners and key staff of boards of elections.

Establishes portable polling locations for early voting; provides that a county board of elections may establish one or more portable polling locations.

Requires voting machines or systems to comply with the voluntary voting system guidelines adopted by the United States election assistance commission on December 13, 2005.

Amends early voting provisions; provides that an application for an absentee ballot that does not provide a reason that the applicant is entitled to such a ballot shall be processed as an application for an early mail ballot.

Requires any student graduating from a high school in New York state be provided with a voter registration form.

Requires the filing of additional transferor and contributor identification information in campaign receipt and expenditure statements for the receipt of amounts over one hundred dollars, including the full name, full residential address including any suite, floor, or apartment, occupation, employer and employer's full business address in the case of an individual, and the full name and address of any partnership, committee, association, corporation, labor organization or group of persons.

Allows public campaign funds to be used for disability access services including but not limited to captioning, sign language interpretation, assistive listening device, Braille, large print, communication access real-time translation and accessible transportation services and to be used for language interpretation and translation services.

Relates to the exercise of powers and duties of the board of elections of the city of New York and its executive management; provides for equal representation among certain employees of the board of elections; relates to qualification and removal of certain employees of the board of elections.

Relates to making electronic ballot images and cast vote records public records of the board of elections upon request.

Requires every board of elections to employ a minimum of four full time employees in addition to the appointed commissioners within four years and shall employ two of those full time employees within two years; and two additional employees for every twenty thousand active registered voters beyond forty thousand active registered voters.

Authorizes, under certain circumstances, full-time college and university students to act as election inspectors and poll clerks in the election district where their college or university is located.

Requires disclosure of major contributors on independent expenditure communications; provides language for such disclaimers.

Prohibits certain political contributions and loans by certain organizations; provides that loans not repaid by the date of the primary or election shall be considered a contribution.

Relates to party nominations for candidates for office, excluding counties located within cities with a population of one million or more.

Relates to instant run-off elections in the city of New York for any city-wide elections for the office of mayor, public advocate or comptroller.

Relates to the time period during which absentee ballots shall be mailed or delivered after an application for such ballot is received by the board of elections.

Requires the board of elections to send an absentee ballot application to all voters who filed an absentee ballot application for the prior election; provides for a permanent absentee ballot application list.

Requires the county seat in Madison county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

Prohibits a court from bifurcating the primary elections for members of the state and county committees and assembly district leaders and associate district leaders and all other party positions to be elected and all nominations for public office required to be made at a primary election in such year, except presidential primaries.

Requires that elections for municipal office in the city of New York shall use an "instant run-off" or "ranked choice" voting system.

Requires colleges in the state to communicate all absentee deadlines for New York state elections to all enrolled students.

Removes certain restrictions relating to applications for registration and enrollment of voters.

Requires the board of elections in cities with a population of one million or more to provide at least one interpreter for all languages that are designated city-wide languages at poll sites that contain an election district with at least fifty voting age residents whose limited English proficiency language is a designated city-wide language.

Relates to voting rights expansion, voter registration on election day, expansion of the use of and requirements for absentee voting, creation of a real-time state wide voter registration database, special ballots for election employees, and voter affidavits.

Provides that qualified persons who have never previously registered to vote in this state may apply personally for registration by appearing at the appropriate polling place for the election district in which such person resides on the day such polling place is open for voting; requires establishment of a procedure to enable such registrants to cast their votes at the appropriate polling places.

Authorizes United States citizens currently residing outside the United States whose last residence in the United States was in the state of New York to vote in certain federal elections.

Relates to an electronically submitted absentee ballot application.

Requires a candidate for office to file additional information about the candidate's educational background, military service history, and employment history; provides penalties for violations.

Enacts the Disaster Voting Relief Act; provides for temporary voting procedures in a state of emergency.

Relates to the registration status of voters; establishes additional requirements for the cancellation of a voter's registration; allows voters who have an inactive status to have their registration returned to active status and to have their vote counted for the election in which they vote.

Prohibits recurring campaign donations without affirmative consent; provides that a candidate accepting a recurring contribution shall provide a receipt to the contributor disclosing the terms of the recurring contribution, provide all necessary information to cancel the recurring donation, and immediately cancel the recurring donation upon request.

Provides remedies for disrupted voting times and locations during elections; directs that the BOE extend voting to account for the disruption.

Ensures that boards of elections provide adequate notice to each voter before and after a board cancels the voter's registration or places such voter in inactive status.

Relates to the calculation of voting power for committee members in districts that have changed or new districts since the last preceding gubernatorial election.

Relates to providing Haitian Creole language voting materials.

Relates to providing voting materials and assistance in Haitian Creole in a city having a population of one million or more.

Provides that whenever a contiguous property of a college or university contains three hundred or more registrants, the polling place designated for such election district shall be on such contiguous property or at a location approved by the college or university.

Relates to the number of affidavit ballots to be supplied at polling sites.

Amends provisions relating to public campaign financing; changes certain thresholds and procedures; permits retention of matching funds for future use; specifies when a candidate is opposed by a competitive candidate; requires a disclosure on political communications.

Provides for a referendum on the question "Do you support the division of New York into two separate states?".

Requires the board of elections or a bipartisan committee appointed by such board to conduct a risk-limiting audit of voter verifiable audit records from voting machines or systems within the jurisdiction of such board.

Relates to the age requirement for voting in a primary election; provides that a person who is seventeen years of age at the time of a primary election and who will be eighteen years of age at the time of the general election for which such primary election is held, shall be eligible to vote in such primary election.

Relates to prohibiting boards of elections from entering into contracts for certain services related to the conduct of elections with entities that have made any political campaign donations of any amount in the last ten years.

Instructs the state board of elections to create and distribute voting guides to voters containing information about the candidates; mandates that voters receive postcards to notify them of upcoming elections and that television and radio stations also notify their audience of upcoming elections.

Provides for requirements for officers, boards and judges making determinations as to the sufficiency of a designating or nominating petition.

Directs the Queens county board of elections to provide language assistance in Bengali, Punjabi and Hindi.

Establishes the New York state business contract database containing names of persons who have contracts with the state for the procurement of goods, services or construction that are not awarded through a competitive bid process; prohibits candidates or political committees from receiving certain contributions.

Requires a joint report by the state board of elections and state education department concerning the safety of students and staff at schools used as polling places for elections.

Changes the date of designation for election inspectors and poll clerks to January first.

Requires the county seat in Seneca county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

Requires the county seat in Fulton county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

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.

Requires the filing of additional transferor and contributor identification information in campaign receipt and expenditure statements for the receipt of amounts over one hundred dollars, including the full name, full residential address including any suite, floor, or apartment, occupation, employer and employer's full business address in the case of an individual, and the full name and address of any partnership, committee, association, corporation, labor organization or group of persons.

Provides that entities soliciting a recurring contribution to a political campaign, political committee, party committee, or not-for-profit or for-profit entity shall receive the affirmative consent of the contributor at the time of arrangement of the recurring contribution; provides for refund of recurring contributions; provides penalties for violations.

Removes certain provisions relating to preclearance by the civil rights bureau of certain qualifications, prerequisites to voting, laws, ordinances, standards, practices, procedures, regulations, or policies relating to voting.

Prohibits the state board of elections and local boards of elections from accepting donations of private funds for election administration.

Requires persons appointed as election commissioners to be citizens of the United States.

Makes provisions relating to the joint nomination of candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor; provides candidates be designated jointly either by the state committee or by petition; provides said petition will be valid only if it jointly designates both candidates.

Requires that any ballot proposition creating a state debt shall contain an estimate of the amortization period and the total expected debt service payable thereon until the bonds issued pursuant to such proposition are retired.

Prohibits ballot harvesting; prohibits a person from submitting an application for an absentee ballot on behalf of a voter without notarized consent; permits family members, caregivers and other officials to submit applications.

Enacts the voter registration integrity act; requires a birth certificate, passport, certificate of naturalization or citizenship, evidence of New York state residency, or any other documentation that the board of elections determines establishes United States citizenship.

Allows a U.S. citizen, who is seventeen years of age, to vote in a primary election, including presidential, if such citizen will turn eighteen by the date of the corresponding general election.

Regulates political contribution activities by intermediaries; requires disclosure of certain identifying information when certain contributions are made by an intermediary to a candidate or a committee.

Requires the board of elections to publicly release images of all ballots following an election.

Requires that any ballot proposition creating a state debt shall contain an estimate of the amortization period and the total expected debt service payable thereon until the bonds issued pursuant to such proposition are retired; relates to deposits to the tax stabilization reserve fund; provides that at least 10% of any surplus shall be used to pay down state debt.

Prohibits schedule B contributions on campaign finance filings.

Relates to the rejection by voting machines of ballots that contain a vote for a candidate who previously withdrew from an election.

Relates to the removal of an election commissioner by the governor or by affirmative vote of a majority of commissioners of the state board of elections for incompetence, misconduct, or other good cause, provided that prior to removal, such election commissioner shall be given a written copy of the charges against them and have an opportunity to be heard in their defense.

Permits the state board of elections to join certain multistate voter list maintenance organizations and provide such organizations with certain voter information; requires the state to join a multistate voter list maintenance organization on or before July 31, 2026.

Requires the board of elections in a city with a population of one million or more to notify by mail state and county party committees and certain elected officials prior to a change of polling place.

Changes party enrollment of voters where the enrolled party contained the word "Independence" or "Independent" to not being enrolled in any party.

Moves the date of the presidential primary to the same date as the state primaries.

Requires the board of elections in a city with a population of one million or more to notify by mail state and county party committees and certain elected officials prior to a change of polling place.

Relates to the dates to file a designating petition; provides for the repeal of such provisions.

Provides that early voting for any special election held on April 29, 2025 shall begin on April 21, 2025 and end on April 27, 2025; provides that the duration for early voting hours for any special election held on April 29, 2025 shall be equal to or greater than the minimum number of total hours otherwise required.

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.

Lowers the voting age to 16 years; requires that students receive education in civics and be given the opportunity to register to vote in the classroom.

Prohibits the use of campaign funds to pay attorney's fees for certain actions brought against a candidate or public official.

Prohibits conflicts of interest among board of elections employees; prevents a board of elections employee from remaining on the board of elections payroll while also a candidate for an office who has an election overseen by the board at which they are employed; allows for a member to remain on the board until 90 days before the general election if there is no primary for such office.

Authorizes boards of elections to establish absentee ballot drop-off locations.

Relates to voting rights and access for incarcerated individuals; authorizes polling places to be available at correctional facilities and local facilities; requires such facilities to provide persons detained or confined in such facilities access to register to vote or apply for an absentee ballot; requires voting information to be included in the inmate handbook.

Moves the date of the meeting of the electors; changes the method for the transmission of the certificates of vote to align with federal law.

Provides that an attorney licensed to practice in the state may serve as a poll watcher in any city or county in the state.

Modifies the order in which candidates appear on the ballot; requires that offices shall be listed on the ballot in descending order based on the size of the electorate and requires certain federal offices to be listed before state, county or local offices.

Relates to requiring certain notice and disclosure regarding materially deceptive media in political communications.

Prohibits schedule B contributions on campaign finance filings.

Requires the filing of additional transferor and contributor identification information in campaign receipt and expenditure statements for the receipt of amounts over one hundred dollars, including the full name, full residential address including any suite, floor, or apartment, occupation, employer and employer's full business address in the case of an individual, and the full name and address of any partnership, committee, association, corporation, labor organization or group of persons.

Prohibits schedule B contributions on campaign finance filings.

Prohibits election commissioners and deputy election commissioners from holding a publicly elected office or from being the respective chair of the county democratic or republican committees.

Requires any student graduating from a high school in New York state be provided with a voter registration form.

Changes the seventy-two hour filing requirement for minutes of a nomination convention to three days.

Provides for the use of voting systems by towns, villages, school districts, fire, ambulance, water, sanitation, police and other special districts within a county.

Relates to ballots for voters who have medical exigencies on election day.

Relates to deadlines for certain applications for special ballots for president and vice-president of the United States.

Makes amendments to the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York regarding definition of certain terms and enforcement provisions; specifies certain deceptive and fraudulent acts; relates to notification of violations; relates to preclearance of policies by the civil rights bureau or by a designated court; requires notification to the civil rights bureau of actions involving voting rights.

Provides for automatic voter registration and pre-registration for persons applying for certain department of motor vehicles documentation, and for persons applying for or re-enrolling in Medicaid; allows individuals to decline such automatic registration and pre-registration.

Requires social media influencers to disclose when they share on social media that they are being paid by a campaign; authorizes the state board of elections to promulgate certain regulations.

Permits the state board of elections to join certain multistate voter list maintenance organizations and provide such organizations with certain voter information; requires the state to join a multistate voter list maintenance organization on or before July 31, 2025.

Changes the date of designation for election inspectors and poll clerks to January first.

Relates to the authority of the state board of elections to issue subpoenas; directs the board of elections to issue rules and regulations.

Relates to the authority of the state board of elections to issue subpoenas; directs the board of elections to issue rules and regulations.

Includes a statement on the envelopes of ballots for absentee voters and special presidential voters for signature affirmation.

Relates to party nominations for candidates for office, excluding counties located within cities with a population of one million or more.

Subtracts from the federal adjusted gross income any income earned by election inspectors, poll clerks, or election coordinators earned while working in relation to a general, primary, run-off primary, or special election to the extent includable in gross income for federal tax purposes; exempts such income from being included in the calculation of the amount of benefits under public assistance programs.

Provides that a voter may register to vote at any residence to which the voter maintains a continuous connection with an intent to remain, including a second home or a vacation home or a home where a student lives while attending a college or university.

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.

Relates to the exercise of powers and duties of the board of elections of the city of New York and its executive management; provides for equal representation among certain employees of the board of elections; relates to qualification and removal of certain employees of the board of elections.

Requires a commissioner to meet certain qualifications before his or her appointment which shall include, but not be limited to, the qualifications prescribed by section three of the public officers law, and demonstrated experience in election administration or other management, operations, or administrative experience in the public, non-profit, or private sector as deemed sufficient by the board.

Requires that subpoenas issued relating to election matters be served with a separate informational sheet that summarizes why the subpoena has been issued.

Relates to designating early polling places.

Authorizes county boards of elections to establish county-wide polling places where any person entitled to vote in such county by personal appearance may so vote on the day of a primary election or general election, subject to approval by the state board of elections.

Requires every board of elections to employ a minimum of four full time employees in addition to the appointed commissioners within four years and shall employ two of those full time employees within two years; and two additional employees for every twenty thousand active registered voters beyond forty thousand active registered voters.

Enacts the "election workers and polling places protection act" to protect poll watchers, election officials, voters and physical property being used as a polling place or by the board of elections.

Relates to the removal of an election commissioner by the governor or by affirmative vote of a majority of commissioners of the state board of elections for incompetence, misconduct, or other good cause, provided that prior to removal, such election commissioner shall be given a written copy of the charges against them and have an opportunity to be heard in their defense.

Directs the state board of elections to conduct a study on the implementation and impact of ranked choice voting in New York state.

Prohibits ballot harvesting; prohibits a person from submitting an application for an absentee ballot on behalf of a voter without notarized consent; permits family members, caregivers and other officials to submit applications.

Requires certain candidates to file a statement attesting to the veracity of statements regarding the candidate's educational history, and service, employment and residency record; provides for the filing of amended statements; provides penalties.

Makes commissioners full time employees of boards outside the city of New York.

Increases compensation of election inspectors to $300 and coordinators to $350 in New York city.

Increases the term of office of an election commissioner from two to four years beginning January first of each odd numbered year.

Relates to split shifts for election inspectors or poll clerks.

Relates to mandatory training curriculum for election commissioners and key staff of boards of elections.

Requires colleges in the state to communicate all absentee deadlines for New York state elections to all enrolled students.

Provides for the declination of a designation as a candidate or nomination for a party position if the person designated or nominated has received a diagnosis of a serious health condition or has resigned the office for which they are nominated or designated to run for re-election.

Instructs the state board of elections to create and distribute voting guides to voters containing information about the candidates; mandates that voters receive postcards to notify them of upcoming elections and that television and radio stations also notify their audience of upcoming elections.

Relates to the number of signatures needed for designating petitions in counties with a population of two hundred fifty thousand or fewer.

Requires disclosure of the use of artificial intelligence in political communications; directs the state board of elections to create criteria for determining whether a political communication contains an image or video footage created through generative artificial intelligence and to create a definition of content generated by artificial intelligence.

Eliminates the ability of judicial candidates for office who are enrolled in a particular party to automatically be allowed to run as a candidate in another party's primary election.

Authorizes the board of elections, or the attorney general in the case of a deadlock, to alter the presidential ballot.

Enacts the "Doctor John L. Flateau Voting and Elections Database and Academic Center of New York Act"; regulates public data maintained by county and city boards of elections; establishes the New York voting and elections academic center to maintain a statewide database of voting and election data.

Prohibits deceptive practices and the suppression of voters.

Establishes portable polling locations for early voting; provides that a county board of elections may establish one or more portable polling locations.

Requires public-facing websites operated by political committees to contain "paid for by" language; adds such public-facing websites to the list of political communications that qualify as independent expenditures.

Relates to furnishing money or entertainment to induce attendance at polls.

Establishes portable polling locations for early voting; provides that a county board of elections may establish one or more portable polling locations.

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.

Relates to the calculation of voting power for committee members in districts that have changed or new districts since the last preceding gubernatorial election.

Prohibits a court from bifurcating the primary elections for members of the state and county committees and assembly district leaders and associate district leaders and all other party positions to be elected and all nominations for public office required to be made at a primary election in such year, except presidential primaries.

Requires a New York state driver's license or non-driver ID, a United States passport, an identification card issued by a United States educational institution, a United States military identification card, a government issued medical card, or any identification card issued by the United States or the state of New York to be presented when casting a ballot.

Relates to making electronic ballot images and cast vote records public records of the board of elections upon request.

Provides that absentee ballots may be canvassed at the poll site on election day; provides that representatives of candidates, parties, or independent bodies may be present to observe the review of affidavit ballot envelopes.

Requires the board of elections in cities with a population of one million or more to provide at least one interpreter for all languages that are designated city-wide languages at poll sites that contain an election district with at least fifty voting age residents whose limited English proficiency language is a designated city-wide language.

Relates to voting rights including voter protection, voter's bill of rights, illegal voter suppression and intimidation, vote dilution, and preclearance.

Extends certain chapters providing for expanded absentee voting until 2023.

Requires that elections for municipal office in the city of New York shall use an "instant run-off" or "ranked choice" voting system.

Makes technical corrections regarding the public financing of elections.

Provides for requirements for officers, boards and judges making determinations as to the sufficiency of a designating or nominating petition.

Relates to no longer permitting the use of electronic absentee voting applications; repeals all provisions relating thereto.

Requires a candidate for office to file additional information about the candidate's educational background, military service history, and employment history and provides penalties for violations.

Provides for a referendum on the question "Do you support the division of New York into two separate states?".

Provides for the re-enfranchisement of voters with felony convictions by repealing certain provisions in the election law.

Relates to contributions from persons doing or seeking business dealings with a state governmental entity.

Requires a government photo identification card to be presented when casting a ballot; provides for a method to receive a government photo identification card at no charge; provides that notaries are not permitted to collect a fee for collecting the documents required.

Authorizes electronic submission of absentee ballots.

Relates to an electronically submitted absentee ballot application.

Improves transparency regarding boards of elections; improves voter centricity; includes boards of elections in open meetings requirements; requires certain notices be given regarding elections; requires additional transparency during the tabulation of votes.

Requires the county seat in Delaware county (Delhi) to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

Prevents municipalities from abridging the election law.

Requires a joint report by the state board of elections and state education department concerning the safety of students and staff at schools used as polling places for elections.

Exempts public school buildings from being designated as early polling locations.

Requires the board of elections to publicly release images of all ballots following an election.

Provides that if a school building is designated as a polling place, the board or body which controls such building shall provide a space that is not easily accessible to areas of the building where instructional activities are taking place, and if such a space cannot be provided that meets such criteria, the board or agency which controls such building shall cancel in-person instructional activities during the operating hours of such poll site.

Relates to the disposition of campaign funds raised by an elected official who has been convicted of a crime committed while in public office or has been impeached and has been convicted, or has resigned public office following findings by either the attorney general or a committee of the legislature that the official has violated the law.

Allows any qualified person to apply for voter registration and enrollment by application made with an application for any hunting or fishing license.

Eliminates family contribution exceptions to candidates for election.

Relates to enacting the "Esther Salas candidate privacy act" providing the option for candidates for office and petition witnesses not to put their address on designation petitions but instead file such with the county clerk for a fee.

Relates to transition and inauguration donations and expenses and funds for personal use.

Prohibits recurring campaign donations without affirmative consent; provides that a candidate accepting a recurring contribution shall provide a receipt to the contributor disclosing the terms of the recurring contribution, provide all necessary information to cancel the recurring donation, and immediately cancel the recurring donation upon request.

Relates to pre-clearance of voting-related regulations and policies.

Relates to the representation of newly formed political parties; relates to the placement of candidates of newly formed political parties on ballots, the representation of such parties within the state and the transmission of the official canvass of votes cast for presidential electors.

Requires that county committees meet no earlier than one day after the June primary is certified.

Changes the time period for the annual national change of address system check for registered voters to January.

Provides for voter requests for an absentee ballot from the board of elections by telephone.

Requires the county seat in Wayne county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

Requires the state board of elections to fit registration forms to 8.5 x 11 inches standard paper size.

Relates to absentee voting in nursing homes and senior citizen residences; requires board of inspectors to deliver and help complete applications for absentee ballots to residents of such facilities.

Relates to an electronically submitted absentee ballot application and absentee ballot.

Relates to certain absentee ballots received by a board of elections that do not bear or display a dated postmark.

Requires the board of elections to provide email notifications to voters whenever they change the location of a polling place.

Relates to the number of affidavit ballots to be supplied at polling sites.

Relates to construction of voting machines and systems.

Establishes an electronic military ballot application and military ballot transmittal system through which applicants may apply for a military ballot and return a marked military ballot, online.

Relates to requests for proposals for voting machines and contracts for the purchase of voting machines or systems.

Provides all registered voters on the day of the general election and the primary election in every even numbered year a full work day off without the loss of pay; provides a tax credit to small businesses who provide a paid day off to employees on general election day.

Relates to the creation, consolidation, division, and alteration of election districts by the board of elections in the city of New York.

Relates to making electronic ballot images and cast vote records public records of the board of elections upon request.

Relates to empowering the commissioner of a board of elections to order a voting machine audit upon a finding of discrepancies.

Regulates political contribution activities by intermediaries; requires that when contributions made by an intermediary to a candidate or a committee are over $1,000, the name, occupation and address of each contributor shall be disclosed.

Relates to annual reports of the boards of elections; requires such reports be made available on the boards' websites; requires that the reports include specific performance metrics.

Relates to prohibiting boards of elections from entering into contracts for certain services related to the conduct of elections with entities that have made any political campaign donations of any amount in the last ten years.

Relates to the time period during which absentee ballots shall be mailed or delivered after an application for such ballot is received by the board of elections.

Relates to the content of statements of campaign receipts, contributions, transfers and expenditures to and by political committees; requires such statements to include the occupation of the contributor, and in certain cases such person's employer and business address.

Makes provisions relating to the joint nomination of candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor; provides candidates be designated jointly either by the state committee or by petition; provides said petition will be valid only if it jointly designates both candidates.

Authorizes any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot and to elect to permanently vote by absentee ballot.

Allows a U.S. citizen, who is seventeen years of age, to vote in a primary election, including presidential, if he or she will turn eighteen by the date of the corresponding general election.

Requires electors to vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidates in a manner representing the plurality of votes in each congressional district.

Defines the term "party" as any political organization which at the last preceding election for governor polled at least fifty thousand votes for its candidate for governor.

Prohibits a court from bifurcating the primary elections for members of the state and county committees and assembly district leaders and associate district leaders and all other party positions to be elected and all nominations for public office required to be made at a primary election in such year, except presidential primaries.

Requires that any ballot proposition creating a state debt shall contain an estimate of the amortization period and the total expected debt service payable thereon until the bonds issued pursuant to such proposition are retired.

Establishes the New York state business contract database containing names of persons who have contracts with the state for the procurement of goods, services or construction that are not awarded through a competitive bid process; prohibits candidates or political committees from receiving certain contributions.

Relates to designating every government entity which issues licenses to carry, possess, repair and dispose of firearms as participating agencies for voter registration form distribution and assistance.

Lowers the voting age to 16 years; requires that students receive education in civics and be given the opportunity to register to vote in the classroom.

Increases the dollar value of items that may legally be given or provided to any person, other than persons who are official representatives of the board of elections or political parties and committees and persons who are engaged as watchers, in a polling place without any identification of the person or entity supplying such provisions.

Establishes no polling place shall be located on the premises of any public or private elementary or secondary school or a school for preschool children.

Authorizes United States citizens currently residing outside the United States whose last residence in the United States was in the state of New York to vote in certain federal elections.

Enacts the voter registration integrity act; requires a birth certificate, passport, certificate of naturalization or citizenship, evidence of New York state residency, or any other documentation that the board of elections determines establishes United States citizenship.

Requires that any ballot proposition creating a state debt shall contain an estimate of the amortization period and the total expected debt service payable thereon until the bonds issued pursuant to such proposition are retired; relates to deposits to the tax stabilization reserve fund; provides that at least 10% of any surplus shall be used to pay down state debt.

Requires the fair campaign code to require campaign literature and other mass media identify the person, political party or committee authorizing such material.

Prohibits fraudulent absentee ballot drop-off boxes or receptacles by making it a felony for anyone other than the board of elections to erect, display or maintain an absentee ballot drop-off box or receptacle.

Prohibits the at large election of any member of the governing or legislative body of a town or village by electors of such town or village; requires the election of such members by wards.

Establishes early mail voting; authorizes registered voters to obtain early mail voting ballots through application to the board of elections; requires the state board of elections to establish and maintain an electronic early mail ballot application transmittal system through which voters may apply for an early mail ballot online.

Provides for conditional registration of voters during early voting.

Provides that for any legal challenge to the constitutionality of a provision of the election law, venue shall be brought in the following designated court in the judicial department within which at least one plaintiff is located: first judicial department: New York county; second judicial department: Westchester county; third judicial department: Albany county; and fourth judicial department: Erie county.

Amends election law to accurately reflect proper cross reference relating to the operational failure of a voting machine.

Relates to ballots submitted in envelopes that are sealed with tape, paste or any other binding agent or device and have no indication of tampering.

Relates to the dates to file a designating petition; provides for the repeal of such provisions.

Prohibits contributions from permit and license applicants to certain entities and persons.

Reduces the time for mailing and receipt of registration application to constitutional minimum.

Prohibits a state party from using the word "Independent" or "Independence" in its name.

Requires the counting of an affidavit ballot of an eligible voter if such voter appeared at a polling place in the correct county but in the incorrect election district; provides that such vote shall not be cast and canvassed for such contests for which the person was not entitled to vote at such election.

Relates to authorizing registration records of victims of sexual violence to be kept confidential in certain cases.

Prohibits private individuals or entities to pay for the administrative expenses associated with the conduct of a referendum.

Provides that recounts of ballots conducted by the board of elections or a bipartisan committee appointed by the board can be either done manually or via the use of any automated tool authorized for such use by the board of elections, which is independent from the voting system it is being used to recount, of all ballots for a particular contest where the margin of victory is less than or equal to 0.5% but greater than 0.25%; allows for losing candidates to deny a recount before any recount is conducted.

Relates to ballots where the express intent of the voter is unambiguous.

Relates to the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York; establishes rights of actions for denying or abridging the right of any member of a protected class to vote; provides assistance to language-minority groups; provides for preclearance of certain voting policies; makes related provisions.

Reduces the signature requirement for petitions for candidates for the school board of the city of Buffalo.

Relates to designating early polling places.

Relates to authorizing registration records of victims of sexual violence to be kept confidential in certain cases.

Authorizes the state board of elections to reject the use of voting machines or systems on the grounds that such machines or systems are not proper, safe, or secure.

Makes the suppression of voters a civil violation.

Relates to construction of voting machines and systems.

Provides that entities soliciting a recurring contribution to a political campaign, political committee, party committee, or not-for-profit or for-profit entity shall receive the affirmative consent of the contributor at the time of arrangement of the recurring contribution; provides for refund of recurring contributions; provides penalties for violations.

Repeals certain provisions relating to absentee voting in primary elections for certain party positions.

Relates to government vendor contributions.

Relates to government vendor contributions.

Improves transparency regarding boards of elections; improves voter centricity; includes boards of elections in open meetings requirements; requires certain notices be given regarding elections; requires additional transparency during the tabulation of votes.

Requires that subpoenas issued relating to election matters be served with a separate informational sheet that summarizes why the subpoena has been issued.

Makes commissioners full time employees of the board.

Requires a commissioner to meet certain qualifications before his or her appointment which shall include, but not be limited to, the qualifications prescribed by section three of the public officers law, and demonstrated experience in election administration or other management, operations, or administrative experience in the public, non-profit, or private sector as deemed sufficient by the board.

Relates to mandatory training curriculum for poll workers; requires the state board of elections to develop and provide to each county materials for a model poll worker training program which the counties may use to train individuals to serve as poll workers in state and county elections.

Prohibits election commissioners and deputy election commissioners from holding a publicly elected office or from being the respective chair of the county democratic or republican committees.

Relates to the exercise of powers and duties of the board of elections of the city of New York and its executive management.

Prohibits conflicts of interest among board of elections employees; prevents a board of elections employee from remaining on the board of elections payroll while also a candidate for an office who has an election overseen by the board at which they are employed; allows for a member to remain on the board until 90 days before the general election if there is no primary for such office.

Increases compensation of election inspectors to $300 and coordinators to $350 in New York city.

Relates to the disposition of campaign funds raised by an elected official who has been convicted of a crime committed while in public office or has been impeached and has been convicted, or has resigned public office following findings by either the attorney general or a committee of the legislature that the official has violated the law.

Relates to ballots submitted in envelopes that are sealed with tape, paste or any other binding agent or device and have no indication of tampering.

Relates to making electronic ballot images and cast vote records public records of the board of elections upon request.

Requires the board of elections to mail notice of ensuing primary and general elections, registration status, polling place location and other information to active voters between the third Tuesday in April and the second Friday in May each year.

Relates to providing translators at certain polling place locations if fifteen percent of the number of voting age citizens who speak the same language other than English at home reside in the district where such polling place is located.

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.

Requires the county seat in Warren county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

Prohibits recurring campaign donations without affirmative consent; provides that a candidate accepting a recurring contribution shall provide a receipt to the contributor disclosing the terms of the recurring contribution, provide all necessary information to cancel the recurring donation, and immediately cancel the recurring donation upon request.

Requires the county seat in Madison county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

Requires contributions made to a political action committee in an aggregate amount exceeding $10,000 in any calendar year to be reported to the state board of elections.

Requires that county committees meet no earlier than one day after the June primary is certified.

Removes provisions requiring election inspectors, poll clerks, and election coordinators to be appointed in a bipartisan manner.

Relates to contribution and receipt limitations applicable to candidates for election to any public office.

Provides for mandatory training for treasurers of political committees once every three years; requires treasurers to complete such training within forty-five days after first being appointed; requires the state board of elections to provide such training in any method it determines, as well as a web-based format; makes related provisions.

Authorizes party designations and nominations for elections to be made via video conference upon notice to the members of the respective committee; allows certificates of designation or nomination to be executed in separate acts by the signatories.

Requires the state board of elections to develop a program to be administered by all boards of elections to notify voters of certain information where their area has been redistricted.

Requires the county seat in Herkimer county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

Relates to the number of early voting poll sites in certain cities and towns; requires, where practicable, that such sites shall be situated along public transportation routes.

Authorizes boards of elections to establish absentee ballot drop-off locations.

Establishes portable polling locations for early voting; provides that a county board of elections may establish one or more portable polling locations.

Provides that whenever a contiguous property of a college or university contains three hundred or more registrants, the polling place designated for such election district shall be on such contiguous property or at a location approved by the college or university.

Enacts the democracy preservation act; prohibits contributions by foreign-influenced business entities; requires certification.

Establishes portable polling locations for early voting; provides that a county board of elections may establish one or more portable polling locations.

Authorizes party designations and nominations for elections to be made via video teleconference or web conference upon notice to the members of the respective committee and allows certificates of designation or nomination to be executed in separate acts by the signatories.

Prevents municipalities from abridging the election law.

Prohibits the use of campaign funds to pay any settlement fees, fines or penalties for sexual harassment civil or criminal actions.

Authorizes United States citizens currently residing outside the United States whose last residence in the United States was in the state of New York to vote in certain federal elections.

Relates to the number and location of early voting poll sites in certain counties.

Relates to absentee ballots; provides an electronic application to request an absentee ballot.

Authorizes, under certain circumstances, full-time college and university students to act as election inspectors and poll clerks in the election district where their college or university is located.

Relates to the disposition of campaign funds upon the removal of an elected official who has been removed from office as a result of conviction on an impeachment.

Requires voters voting by affidavit ballot to produce an identification document to verify residency in the election district; requires absentee ballots to be received by election day, or be post-marked by the first day of early voting.

Requires audits by hand recount of voter verifiable audit records.

Relates to establishing a secure website and mobile application that allows voters who have submitted an application for an absentee ballot to view the current status of their application and absentee ballot.

Relates to contribution limits for parties appointed to public positions; limits such contribution to no more than fifteen percent of the contribution limits set forth in election law section 14-114; civil penalty not to exceed the greater of ten thousand dollars or an amount equal to two hundred percent of the contribution.

Relates to restricted government participant contribution periods; civil penalty not to exceed the greater of ten thousand dollars or an amount equal to two hundred percent of the contribution.

Prohibits contribution to any state constituted party or committee or any candidate or candidate committee for any office of the state, municipal or other local government by a person appointed to a position on any state or local board or authority within the state.

Authorizes voting by proxy at a judicial district convention due to novel coronavirus, COVID-19.

Requires that all printed political campaign mailing pieces, containing or made of recyclable material, include a message about recycling the printed materials.

Requires the board of elections in the city of New York to release data on how voters ranked all candidates in a ranked choice election, even if a single candidate received a majority of highest rank votes and the tabulation process was not triggered.

Requires the county seat in Wayne county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

Provides for the removal of a registered voter from voting rolls due to the death of such voter.

Establishes a code of ethics for all board of election employees so that no employee of a board of election has any interest, financial or otherwise, direct or indirect, or engage in any business or transaction or professional activity or incur any obligation of any nature, which is in substantial conflict with the proper discharge of his or her duties in the public interest.

Directs the state board of elections to prescribe methods for which public contributions may be used in campaigning; prohibits the use of such public contributions for negative campaigning.

Relates to the definition of the term party.

Requires a joint report by the state board of elections and state education department concerning the safety of students and staff at schools used as polling places for elections.

Decreases the number of signatures needed for designating petitions and independent nominations by one-third for political subdivisions, wholly or in part, within a county in which one or more residents have been confirmed to be diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for year two thousand twenty-one.

Relates to the time election day workers must be at poll sites to prepare for the opening of polls; one hour instead of one-half hour.

Relates to authorizing voting by inmates in correctional facilities; requires the department of corrections and community supervision, in collaboration with the state and county boards of election, to establish a program to facilitate inmate voter registration and voting.

Requires the board of elections to provide Russian interpreters at certain polling locations in cities having a population in excess of one million people.

Relates to the number of affidavit ballots to be supplied at polling sites.

Exempts public school buildings from being designated as early polling locations.

Requires the county seat in St. Lawrence county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

Relates to providing voting materials and assistance in Haitian Creole in a city having a population of one million or more.

Requires counties with a population of one million or more to have at least one polling place in each town and city of such counties.

Requires the county seat in Seneca county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

Authorizes persons in control of public school buildings to request the cancellation of the designation of such building as a polling place.

Authorizes, under certain circumstances, full-time college and university students to act as election inspectors and poll clerks in the election district where their college or university is located.

Requires voters to wear a face mask while voting during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eliminates the signature requirement for designating petitions for certain candidates for office in the city of New York.

Relates to campaign funds for personal use.

Requires electors to vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidate who were nominated by the political party that nominated the presidential elector.

Provides voters an opportunity to cure deficiencies regarding affidavit ballots.

Prohibits certain political contributions and loans by certain organizations; provides that loans not repaid by the date of the primary or election shall be considered a contribution.

Provides for mandatory training for treasurers of political committees once every three years; requires treasurers to complete such training within forty-five days after first being appointed; requires the state board of elections to provide such training in any method it determines, as well as a web-based format; makes related provisions.

Relates to the use of voting systems by municipalities; provides for the determination of actual expenses of the board.

Authorizes any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot and to elect to permanently vote by absentee ballot.

Relates to prohibiting boards of elections from entering into contracts for certain services related to the conduct of elections with entities that have made any political campaign donations of any amount in the last ten years.

Requires a valid government issued photo identification card be presented when casting a ballot; provides for persons eligible for Medicaid to receive identification cards.

Provides all registered voters on the day of the general election and the primary election in every even numbered year a full work day off without the loss of pay; provides a tax credit to small businesses who provide a paid day off to employees on general election day.

Relates to designating every government entity which issues licenses to carry, possess, repair and dispose of firearms as participating agencies for voter registration form distribution and assistance.

Allows a U.S. citizen, who is seventeen years of age, to vote in a primary election, including presidential, if he or she will turn eighteen by the date of the corresponding general election.

Directs the Queens county board of elections to provide language assistance in Bengali, Punjabi and Hindi.

Relates to allowing photographs of one's self and one's own ballot while voting, provided that such photographs do not contain any other voter or reveal the contents of any other voter's ballot.

Relates to increasing fines and penalties for certain violations; requires refund of certain illegal contributions.

Relates to the registration status of voters; establishes additional requirements for the cancellation of a voter's registration and allows voters who have an inactive status to have their registration returned to active status and to have their vote counted for the election in which they vote.

Provides protections against illegal voter purging.

Requires the board of elections or a bipartisan committee appointed by such board to conduct a risk-limiting audit of voter verifiable audit records from voting machines or systems within the jurisdiction of such board.

Requires that elections for municipal office in the city of New York shall use an "instant run-off" or "ranked choice" voting system.

Requires the filing of additional transferor and contributor identification information in campaign receipt and expenditure statements for the receipt of amounts over one hundred dollars, including the occupation, employer and employer's address in the case of an individual, and the full name and address of any partnership, committee, association, corporation, labor organization or group of persons.

Requires the disclosure of the applicant's social security number when registering to vote on an application for a motor vehicle driver's license.

Exempts public school buildings with instructional space from being designated as early polling locations; allows school districts to decline school building designations as early polling locations.

Relates to the content of statements of campaign receipts, contributions, transfers and expenditures to and by political committees; requires such statements to include the occupation of the contributor, and in certain cases such person's employer and business address.

Moves the date of the presidential primary to the same date as the state primaries.

Includes a statement on the envelopes of ballots for absentee voters and special presidential voters for signature affirmation.

Requires electors to vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidates in a manner representing the plurality of votes in each congressional district.

Provides that a candidate who files a certificate of acceptance for an office for which there have been filed certificates or petitions designating more than one candidate for the nomination of any party, may thereafter file a certificate of declination not later than the seventh day after the primary election.

Authorizes party designations and nominations for elections to be made via video teleconference or web conference upon notice to the members of the respective committee and allows certificates of designation or nomination to be executed in separate acts by the signatories.

Increases the number of days permitted for early voting; permits early voting beginning on the seventeenth day prior to any general, primary, run-off primary or special election.

Relates to the number of signatures needed for designating petitions in counties with a population of two hundred fifty thousand or fewer.

Provides that upon the death of a candidate, former candidate or holder of elective office, remaining campaign accounts be transferred to the state treasury unless a charitable organization has been designated to receive such moneys.

Authorizes and directs the state board of elections to create an online petitioning system for designating petitions.

Prohibits the use of campaign funds to pay attorney's fees or any costs for the actual defense of a candidate, public or party official, members of their immediate family or domestic partner in connection with a criminal action, investigation, or prosecution; restricts use of such funds for costs related to certain civil actions.

Relates to special restrictions on campaign contributions for district attorney candidates; requires such candidates to disclose to the board of elections the acceptance of campaign contributions from any law firm that represents defendants in criminal proceedings in any court in the state or from any licensed attorney employed by such law firm.

Requires the board of elections to provide a return postage guaranteed envelope with absentee ballots.

Relating to requests for absentee ballots.

Ensures that voting systems testing requirements do not make it impractical to provide each polling place for early voting all of the election district ballots.

Relates to empowering the commissioner of a board of elections to order a voting machine audit upon a finding of discrepancies.

Requires the board of elections to maintain a database of all campaign finance disclosure report filers and to provide a means to search such database for active filers.

Relates to requests for proposals for voting machines and contracts for the purchase of voting machines or systems.

Removes the requirement that party emblems be included in ballot design.

Requires that any ballot proposition creating a state debt shall contain an estimate of the amortization period and the total expected debt service payable thereon until the bonds issued pursuant to such proposition are retired; relates to deposits to the tax stabilization reserve fund; provides that at least 10% of any surplus shall be used to pay down state debt.

Relates to the number and location of early voting poll sites in certain counties.

Regulates political contribution activities by intermediaries; requires that when contributions made by an intermediary to a candidate or a committee are over $1,000, the name, occupation and address of each contributor shall be disclosed.

Relates to proceedings with respect to the canvass of absentee, military and special ballots and ballots cast by voters with registration records missing on days of election or voters who have not had their identity previously verified or who have moved after registering.

Relates to the time period during which absentee ballots shall be mailed or delivered after an application for such ballot is received by the board of elections.

Enacts the young adult voter registration act; requires each public high school within the state to make voter registration forms available to all students.

Relates to transition and inauguration donations and expenses and funds for personal use.

Requires the boards of elections to provide a secure website or web portal through which voters can track their absentee application or absentee ballot.

Relates to the statements of receipts, contributions, transfers and expenditures to transition and inauguration entities.

Eliminates the requirements for publication of detailed election notices within the city of New York.

Relates to an electronically submitted absentee ballot application and absentee ballot.

Authorizes the city of New York to establish and maintain an electronic voter registration transmittal system for New York city residents.

Relates to obtaining written acceptance from candidates for certain county committees; requires written acceptance, duly acknowledged, from such candidates to be so designated to be filed within ten days of designating petitions for certain county committee candidates.

Lowers the voting age to 16 years; requires that students receive education in civics and be given the opportunity to register to vote in the classroom.

Requires the board of elections to provide email notifications to voters whenever they change the location of a polling place.

Sets forth the means of the disposition of campaign funds upon the conviction of a felony of a candidate, former candidate or holder of elective office.

Relates to the canvassing of absentee, military and special ballots and ballots cast in affidavit envelopes.

Relates to the definition of the term "name" for purposes of designating or nominating a candidate for public office or party position.

Relates to electronic applications for absentee ballots; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

Relates to absentee voting by residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities; provides that inspectors of the board of elections shall not physically deliver ballots to residents of such facilities.

Relates to absentee voting application deadlines; provides all applications requesting an absentee ballot by mail must be received by the board of elections no later than the fifteenth day before the election for a ballot is first requested; provides applications delivered in person shall be received no later than the day before such election.

Relates to the mailing and receipt of absentee ballots; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

Relates to electronic applications for absentee ballots; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

Requires the state board of elections to develop a program to be administered by all boards of elections to notify voters of certain information where their area has been redistricted.

Authorizes a change of location of early voting polling places for certain special, primary and run-off primary elections when no voters of the municipality with the highest population within the county are eligible to vote.

Authorizes a change of location of early voting polling places for certain special, primary and run-off primary elections when no voters of the municipality with the highest population within the county are eligible to vote.

Relates to the number of signatures of enrolled voters needed on a designating petition for any town office to be filled by all the voters of certain towns and the number of signatures required on a designating petition for a village election; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

Reduces the number of signatures for designating petitions; provides dates for the signing and filing of designating petitions in 2021.

Creates a pilot program to provide for an instant runoff voting method to be used in up to ten local governments, selected by the state board of elections, in election years 2024 and 2025; requires report to state legislature.

Relates to the confidentiality of registration records for victims of domestic violence; requires victims of domestic violence wishing to make their registration records confidential to deliver a signed written statement swearing or affirming that they are victims of domestic violence and due to the threat of physical or emotional harm they wish to keep their registration record confidential.

Relates to making electronic ballot images public record upon request.

Requires the board of elections to provide email notifications to voters whenever they change the location of a polling place.

Requires the board of elections to print in bold type the date and time of all upcoming primary and general elections on address verification notices sent out prior to elections.

Requires the board of elections to print in bold type the date and time of all upcoming primary and general elections on address verification notices sent out prior to elections.

Prohibits the making of any change, alteration or modification to any entrance to or exit from a polling place unless such change, alteration or modification is necessary to maintain public safety due to the occurrence of an emergency, and requires the posting of signage in relation to such change, alteration or modification.

Relates to enacting the "Esther Salas candidate privacy act" providing the option for candidates for office and petition witnesses not to put their address on designation petitions but instead file such with the county clerk for a fee.

Allows certain party designations and nominations to be made via video teleconference upon notice to the members of the respective committee; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof.

Relates to providing voters an opportunity to cure deficiencies regarding absentee ballots.

Relates to the receipt by the board of elections of certain absentee ballots received by a board of elections that do not bear or display a dated postmark.

Authorizes absentee voting; defines the term "illness" for the purposes of absentee voting to include instances where a voter is unable to appear personally at the polling place of the election district in which they are a qualified voter because there is a risk of contracting or spreading a disease causing illness to the voter or to other members of the public.

Requires certain government issued identification to be presented when casting a ballot for the first time.

Requires electors to vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidate who received the highest number of votes in the state.

Relates to the definition of the term "name" for purposes of designating or nominating a candidate for public office or party position.

Provides that whenever a contiguous property of a college or university contains three hundred or more registrants, the polling place designated for such election district shall be on such contiguous property or at a location approved by the college or university.

Provides that absentee ballots for all elections shall be made available in Braille and large print, upon request of a blind or visually impaired voter no less than 30 days prior to each election day.

Provides that whenever a contiguous property of a college or university contains three hundred or more registrants, the polling place designated for such election district shall be on such contiguous property or at a location approved by the college or university.

Provides that whenever a contiguous property of a college or university contains three hundred or more registrants, the polling place designated for such election district shall be on such contiguous property or at a location approved by the college or university.

Provides that absentee ballots for all elections shall be made available in Braille and large print, upon request of a blind or visually impaired voter no less than 30 days prior to each election day.

Relates to authorizing registration records of victims of sexual violence to be kept confidential in certain cases.

Relates to the convening of meetings by county election committees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Permits electronic application for absentee ballots and removes requirement that such application be signed by the voter; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration.

Relates to ballots where the express intent of the voter is unambiguous.

Authorizes electronic ballot applications and electronic return of certain ballots by telephone facsimile transmission and as an attachment to an electronic mail transmission; authorizes facsimile transmission or electronic mail return of a federal post card application form; includes state and local elections on the ballots of special federal voters.

Defines the term "party" as any political organization which at the last preceding election for governor polled at least fifty thousand votes for its candidate for governor.

Authorizes any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot and to elect to permanently vote by absentee ballot.

Decreases the number of signatures needed for designating petitions and independent nominations by one-third for political subdivisions, wholly or in part, within a county in which one or more residents have been confirmed to be diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for year two thousand twenty.

Moves the date of the presidential primary to June 23, 2020.

Relates to declining party nominations after primary elections; provides that a certificate to fill a vacancy by declination shall be filed not later than twenty days after such declination has been filed.

Improves the issuing of absentee ballots.

Increases the minimum compensation to be paid to election inspectors to three hundred dollars and election coordinators to four hundred dollars within the city of New York.

Eliminates the requirements for publication of detailed election notices within the city of New York.

Relates to the use of voting systems by municipalities; provides for the determination of actual expenses of the board.

Establishes the misdemeanor of interfering in the election process by electronic means.

Relates to the timing of the annual check of registrants.

Relates to obtaining written acceptance from candidates for certain county committees; requires written acceptance, duly acknowledged, from such candidates to be so designated to be filed within ten days of designating petitions for certain county committee candidates.

Allows a U.S. citizen, who is seventeen years of age, to vote in a primary election, including presidential, if he or she will turn eighteen by the date of the corresponding general election.

Prohibits private individuals or entities to pay for the administrative expenses associated with the conduct of a referendum.

Requires that subpoenas issued relating to election matters be served with a separate informational sheet that summarizes why the subpoena has been issued.

Requires the filing of additional transferor and contributor identification information in campaign receipt and expenditure statements, including the occupation, employer and employer's address in the case of a natural person.

Requires persons administering challenge oaths to voter applicants to attest that the challenge is being made in good faith and to provide certain identifying information; requires challenge oaths to be presented to a challenged voter applicant in writing.

Requires counties outside of a city with a population of one million or more to allow voters to utilize any early voting site in the county.

Enacts the democracy preservation act; prohibits contributions by foreign-influenced business entities; requires certification that contributing business entities are not a foreign-influenced business entity.

Enacts the voter registration integrity act; requires a birth certificate, passport, certificate of naturalization or citizenship, evidence of New York state residency, or any other documentation that the board of elections determines establishes United States citizenship.

Designates certain university and community college campuses as polling places for early voting.

Relates to the number of early voting poll sites in certain cities and towns and requires, where practicable, that such sites shall be situated along public transportation routes.

Relates to designating early polling places.

Provides voters with a warning about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms.

Authorizes variable message signs placed within the right of way of highways to display certain voting related communications; provides that no such communications shall be displayed if advised by the United States Department of Transportation or any of its agencies that the display of such information will interfere with federal law or regulation or result in the reduction of federal aid highway funds.

Provides voters with a warning about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms.

Requires the board of elections in cities with a population of one million or more to provide at least one interpreter for all languages that are designated city-wide languages at poll sites that contain an election district with at least fifty voting age residents whose limited English proficiency language is a designated city-wide language.

Establishes an electronic military ballot application and military ballot transmittal system through which applicants may apply for a military ballot and return a marked military ballot, online.

Relates to party nominations by multiple political parties; provides that a candidate for election to public office nominated by a political party may also receive a nomination of any other political party and a candidate nominated by more than one political party shall be deemed to have received all votes cast in such candidate's name; provides that any provision of the Campaign Finance Reform Commission's final report deemed inconsistent with this act by a court shall also be deemed repealed by this act.

Authorizes counties to employ computer generated registration lists; updates the list of supplies to be delivered to poll sites.

Relates to construction of voting machines' ballot boxes.

Provides for electronic administration of examinations of election inspectors, poll clerks and election coordinators.

Increases the number of registrants an election district may contain with the approval of the county board of elections; increases number on county committee.

Sets forth the means of the disposition of campaign funds upon the conviction of a felony of a candidate, former candidate or holder of elective office.

Relates to pre-clearance of voting-related regulations and policies.

Prohibits the use of campaign funds to pay any settlement fees, fines or penalties for sexual harassment civil or criminal actions.

Requires the board of elections to maintain a database of all campaign finance disclosure report filers and to provide a means to search such database for active filers.

Requires the board of elections or a bipartisan committee appointed by such board to conduct a risk-limiting audit of voter verifiable audit records from voting machines or systems within the jurisdiction of such board.

Relates to mandatory training curriculum for election commissioners and key staff of boards of elections and to model poll worker training programs; requires the state board of elections to develop and provide to each county materials for a model poll worker training program which the counties may use to train individuals to serve as poll workers in state and county elections.

Requires the board of elections to provide Russian interpreters at certain polling locations in cities having a population in excess of one million people.

Requires the board of elections to maintain a database of all campaign finance disclosure report filers and to provide a means to search such database for active filers.

Relates to signatures for designating petitions for the counties of Erie and Nassau; makes permanent certain provisions of law relating to designating petitions.

Relates to proceedings with respect to the canvass of absentee, military and special ballots and ballots cast by voters with registration records missing on days of election or voters who have not had their identity previously verified or who have moved after registering.

Requires a new party to file a certificate following the election at which the party obtains party status.

Relates to proceedings with respect to designating and nominating petitions.

Relates to time allowed for employees of schools to vote; provides that such employees shall only be eligible for time off to vote if the employee does not have 4 consecutive non-working hours either before the polls open or before the polls close.

Enacts the "Modernized voter registration act of New York."

Relates to the statements of receipts, contributions, transfers and expenditures to transition and inauguration entities.

Relates to voting rights including voter protection, voter's bill of rights, illegal voter suppression and intimidation, vote dilution, and preclearance.

Relates to providing Haitian Creole language voting materials.

Relates to poll watchers for special, town or village elections being held for the sole purpose of a ballot proposal.

Provides that attorneys licensed to practice in the state may serve as a poll watcher in any city or county in the state.

Prohibits the use of campaign funds to pay any settlement fees, fines or penalties for sexual harassment civil or criminal actions.

Provides for the state board of elections to undertake a study of the feasibility for voting by mail, telephone and/or the internet; authorizes a pilot program for such voting during the study; requires a report to the governor and legislature.

Relates to pre-clearance of voting-related regulations and policies.

Prohibits contributions by executive appointees to the governor who appointed them.

Provides that contributions received by a candidate shall not be expended for goods or services provided by an entity in which the candidate and/or one or more members of the candidates family collectively hold a thirty-five percent or greater ownership.

Relates to government vendor contributions.

Requires the board of elections or a bipartisan committee appointed by such board to conduct a risk-limiting audit of voter verifiable audit records from voting machines or systems within the jurisdiction of such board.

Requires boards of elections and bipartisan committees to hand count ballots during recanvass of any ballots cast in election for a position where the difference between the candidates is 10 or less votes, or .5% of the ballots cast for such position, whichever shall be greater.

Sets forth the means of the disposition of campaign funds upon the conviction of a felony of a candidate, former candidate or holder of elective office.

Corrects various laws to ensure that the office for people with developmental disabilities is no longer referred to as the office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

Prohibits the change of name of any independent body making nominations.

Provides for the inclusion, at a voter's option, of an e-mail address in the voter registration application and record, whereupon notices and other communication required to be sent to the voter by the state board of elections shall be sent by e-mail in addition to postal mail; provides that county boards of elections and the board of elections of the city of New York shall have the option of sending required notices and communications by e-mail in addition to postal mail to certain voters.

Provides for the inclusion, at a voter's option, of an e-mail address in the voter registration application and record, whereupon notices and other communication required to be sent to the voter by the state board of elections shall be sent by e-mail in addition to postal mail; provides that county boards of elections and the board of elections of the city of New York shall have the option of sending required notices and communications by e-mail in addition to postal mail to certain voters.

Relates to disclosure of the identities of political committees making certain expenditures for political communications.

Relates to individuals who are nominated to serve on the committee to receive notices to submit a certificate of acceptance.

Relates to the effectiveness of providing uniform polling hours during primary elections.

Relates to opportunity to ballot committee to receive notices as if such committee was a candidate named on a petition.

Relates to establishing the uniform election night procedure act.

Relates to the filing of petitions of designation or nomination in the county of Westchester.

Relates to watchers during election; provides that any candidate on the ballot and any political committee may have for each election district three watchers at any one time, not more than one of whom may be within the guard rail at any one time.

Relates to watchers during election; provides that any candidate on the ballot and any political committee may have for each election district three watchers at any one time, not more than one of whom may be within the guard rail at any one time.

Requires campaign finance information of certain candidates or committees to be filed on an electronic reporting system.

Relates to indicating the placement of ballot proposals.

Relates to indicating the placement of ballot proposals.

Authorizes the board of elections to provide special ballots to board of election employees anytime up to the close of polls on election day.

Provides that the board of elections will mail special ballots to victims of domestic violence with sufficient time to cast such ballot prior to the close of polls.

Provides that the board of elections will mail special ballots to victims of domestic violence with sufficient time to cast such ballot prior to the close of polls.

Relates to instituting additional ballot accountability practices.

Changes the date for filing the certificate of nomination for new parties to the first of September preceding the general election.

Enacts the "integrity in elections act of 2019"; authorizes a change of party affiliation not less than 25 days prior to the next ensuing primary, general or special election; requires the majority vote of the entire party committee for the jurisdiction in which a candidate for public office is running, in order to nominate such candidate as the party candidate; prohibits the transfer of funds between a candidate and committees not formed for the purposes of such candidate; limits independent expenditures for political purposes; limits contributions to $2,600 to any single candidate during an election cycle; enacts campaign finance reform to provide for matching funds for the campaigns of state elected officials; authorizes the imposition of an additional surcharge on recoveries for fraudulent practices regarding stocks, bonds and other securities; establishes the New York state campaign finance fund; provides for a New York state campaign finance fund check-off.

Relates to signatures for designating petitions for political subdivisions outside the city of New York and the counties of Erie and Nassau; must be signed by not less than three and three-quarters per centum.

Relates to signatures for designating petitions for political subdivisions outside the city of New York and the counties of Erie and Nassau; must be signed by not less than three and three-quarters per centum.