A 347: Relates to empowering the commissioner of a board of elections to order a voting machine audit upon a finding of discrepancies and shall also be empowered to order an audit of a particular contest.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 347 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, REYES, RIVERA, SAYEGH, SIMON, DeSTEFANO, BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to empowering the commis- sioner of a board of elections to order a voting machine audit upon a finding of discrepancies The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 9-211 of the election law, as 2 amended by chapter 763 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 4. The state board of elections shall, in accordance with subdivision 5 four of section 3-100 of this chapter, promulgate regulations establish- 6 ing a uniform statewide standard to be used by boards of elections to 7 determine when a discrepancy between the audit tallies and the voting 8 machine or system tallies shall require a further voter verifiable 9 record audit of additional voting machines or systems or a complete 10 audit of all machines or systems within the jurisdiction of a board of 11 elections. Any commissioner of a board of elections shall be empowered 12 to order that any such audit shall be conducted whenever any such 13 discrepancy exists. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01047-01-5