New York S 7401: Relates to county committee designations of candidates for certain offices

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S07401 Summary:

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

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04/15/2025REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7401

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 15, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections

 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to county committee desig-
 nations of candidates for certain offices

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new section 6-127
 2 to read as follows:
 3 § 6-127. Designation by county committee. 1. Party designation of a
 4 candidate for nomination at a primary election in counties, excluding
 5 counties located within a city with a population of one million or more,
 6 for any office to be filled by the voters of the entire county shall be
 7 made by the county committee, if the party rules of such county so
 8 provide.
 9 2. Party designation of a candidate for nomination at a primary
 10 election for any office whose electoral district is contained within a
 11 county, excluding counties located within a city with a population of
 12 one million or more, shall be made by the county committee members
 13 representing the district associated with such office, if the party
 14 rules of such county so provide.
 15 3. For each assembly district or part of an assembly district from
 16 which delegates to a judicial nominating convention are to be elected
 17 pursuant to section 6-124 of this article, excluding those assembly
 18 districts or parts of assembly districts that are located within cities
 19 with a population of one million or more, candidates for the position of
 20 judicial delegate and alternate judicial delegate to be elected at a
 21 primary election shall be designated by the county committee members
 22 representing such assembly district or part of an assembly district, if
 23 the party rules of the county containing such assembly district or part
 24 of an assembly district so provide.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01282-01-5

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 1 4. Designations made pursuant to subdivisions one through three of
 2 this section shall be made by weighted vote of all county committee
 3 members qualified to vote for each such designation. The vote of county
 4 committee members shall be held not earlier than twenty-one days before
 5 the first day to sign designating petitions and not later than the first
 6 day to sign designating petitions for the primary election. Within four
 7 days after such votes are taken, the county committee shall file with
 8 the county board of elections the names of the persons who have been
 9 designated and the offices or delegate positions for which they have
 10 been designated. Upon the vote for each such designation, each county
 11 committee member shall be entitled to cast a number of votes which shall
 12 be in accordance with the ratio which the number of votes for the party
 13 candidate for governor on the line or column of the party at the last
 14 preceding general election in the unit of representation such member
 15 represents bears to the total vote cast on such line or column at such
 16 election for such candidate for governor in the entire district associ-
 17 ated with the office or delegate position for which the designation is
 18 being made. The apportionment of such votes as so prescribed shall be
 19 determined by the rules of the party. The person receiving the majority
 20 of the weighted vote shall be the party's designated candidate for nomi-
 21 nation at the primary election, or, if such designation