New York S 3290: Relates to recounts of ballots conducted by the board of elections or a bipartisan committee appointed by the board

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S03290 Summary:

BILL NOS03290 

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SAME ASSAME AS A01091

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SPONSORCOONEY

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COSPNSRBROUK

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Amd §9-208, El L

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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.

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BILL NOS03290 

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01/24/2025REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3290

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 24, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. COONEY, BROUK -- 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 recounts of ballots
 conducted by the board of elections or a bipartisan committee
 appointed by the board

 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 9-208 of the election law, as
 2 added by section 1 of part JJ of chapter 55 of the laws of 2020, para-
 3 graphs (d) and (e) as amended by chapter 474 of the laws of 2023, is
 4 amended to read as follows:
 5 4. (a) The board of elections or a bipartisan committee appointed by
 6 the board shall conduct a full manual recount of all ballots for a
 7 particular contest:
 8 i. Where the margin of victory is [twenty] ten votes or less; or
 9 ii. Where the margin of victory is [0.5%] 0.25% or less; or
 10 iii. In a contest where one million or more ballots have been cast and
 11 the margin of victory is less than 5,000 votes.
 12 (b) The board of elections or a bipartisan committee appointed by the
 13 board shall conduct a full recount, manually or via the use of any auto-
 14 mated tool authorized for such a use by the board of elections, which is
 15 independent from the voting system it is being used to recount, of all
 16 ballots for a particular contest where the margin of victory is less
 17 than or equal to 0.5% but greater than 0.25%.
 18 (c) For the purposes of this section, the term margin of victory shall
 19 mean the margin between all votes cast in the entire contest following
 20 the recanvass of votes.
 21 [(c)] (d) Where the contest involves portions of two or more counties,
 22 the margin of victory shall be determined by the state board of
 23 elections based on the most recent recanvass results for the contest
 24 submitted by the boards of elections of the counties involved.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00932-01-5

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 1 [(d)] (e) No board of elections shall commence a full manual recount
 2 of a particular contest unless and until such board of elections has
 3 completed and announced the results of the recanvass required by subdi-
 4 vision one of this section, for each applicable election district.
 5 [(e)] (f) The result of the manual recount of ballots shall supersede
 6 the returns filed by the inspectors of election of the election district
 7 in which the canvass was initially made.
 8 (g) Any candidate who is deemed to be losing a contest by the margins
 9 set forth in this subdivision shall, prior to any recount being
 10 conducted, have the ability to reject a recount and concede victory of
 11 such contest.
 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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