A 4022: Requires the county seat in Warren county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4022 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 30, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMPSON -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring the county seat in Warren county to have at least one polling place designated for early voting The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 8-600 of the 2 election law, as amended by chapter 781 of the laws of 2021, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 (b) The largest city in the county or, if there is no city in the 5 county, the municipality with the highest population in each county 6 based on the latest federal decennial census, or the county seat in 7 Washington county, or the county seat in Warren county, shall have at 8 least one polling place designated for early voting, and to the extent 9 practicable if such city or municipality has public transportation 10 routes, such polling place shall be situated along such transportation 11 routes. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2026 and shall apply to any 13 general, primary, run-off primary, or special election held thereafter. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07141-01-5