New York A 7858: Relates to establishing school election wards in the Chester Union Free School District

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A07858 Summary:

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Relates to the order of candidate and delegate names on primary ballots in the city of New York and provides for a rotation of names in subsequent elections.

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04/11/2025referred to election law

01/07/2026referred to election law

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7858

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 April 11, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Election Law

 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to primary election voting
 ballots in the city of New York

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

 1 Section 1. Section 7-116 of the election law is amended by adding a
 2 new subdivision 6-a to read as follows:
 3 6-a. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision six of this
 4 section, in the city of New York, the ballot on the voting machine for
 5 primary elections shall conform to the following additional provisions:
 6 The names of the candidates designated for such public office or party
 7 position in the primary of a party shall be placed under the title of
 8 the office or position in the alphabetical order of their surnames, in
 9 the first or lowest numbered assembly district and election district of
 10 any political unit or subdivision within a county. If candidates'
 11 surnames are identical, their given or first name shall determine their
 12 order. Thereafter the names shall be rotated by election districts by
 13 transposing the first named candidate to the bottom of the order at each
 14 succeeding election district, so that each name shall appear first and
 15 in each other position in an equal number, as nearly as possible, of the
 16 election districts and except, further, that where two or more candi-
 17 dates are to be elected to the same party position, the names of candi-
 18 dates for such a position which appear on the same designating petition
 19 shall be grouped together on the ballot in the order in which their
 20 names appear on the designating petition and the group rotated alphabet-
 21 ically in relation to other groups or individual candidates according to
 22 the surname of the first person on the designating petition of such
 23 group. Groups of candidates for delegate and alternate delegate, and
 24 groups of candidates for male and female delegate and male and female
 25 alternate delegate to the same convention designated on the same peti-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03269-01-5

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 1 tion shall be rotated together alphabetically in relation to other
 2 groups or individual candidates according to the surname of the first
 3 person listed on such designating petition in the group of candidates
 4 for whichever of such delegate or alternate delegate positions will
 5 appear first on the voting machine. If the rules of a party committee
 6 provide for equal representation of the sexes among the members of a
 7 state committee elected from each unit of representation, elections for
 8 male and female members of such a committee from a single unit of repre-
 9 sentation shall be conducted as elections for two different party posi-
 10 tions. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph, if the board
 11 of elections has assigned numbers to the candidates for an office or
 12 position because of identical or similar names among such candidates,
 13 the names of such candidates shall be placed under the title of such
 14 office or position in the order of such numbers in such first or lowest
 15 numbered district, and the names shall not be rotated by election
 16 district. Such names shall appear in the identical order on each ballot
 17 in each election district.
 18 County committee candidates or groups of candidates shall be printed
 19 within the first election district of each