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A11218 • 2025

Deems certain nominating or designating petitions to be permeated with fraud and invalidating the filings made by a contested candidate

Deems certain nominating or designating petitions to be permeated with fraud and invalidating the filings made by a contested candidate

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Sponsor
Matthew Slater
Last action
2026-05-01
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Deems certain nominating or designating petitions to be permeated with fraud and invalidating the filings made by a contested candidate

Deems certain nominating or designating petitions to be permeated with fraud and invalidating the filings made by a contested candidate Deems certain nominating or designating petitions to be permeated with fraud; invalidates the filings made by a contested candidate.

What This Bill Does

  • Deems certain nominating or designating petitions to be permeated with fraud and invalidating the filings made by a contested candidate Deems certain nominating or designating petitions to be permeated with fraud; invalidates the filings made by a contested candidate.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-01 Assembly

    REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW

Official Summary Text

Deems certain nominating or designating petitions to be permeated with fraud and invalidating the filings made by a contested candidate
Deems certain nominating or designating petitions to be permeated with fraud; invalidates the filings made by a contested candidate.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11218

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                       May 1, 2026
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT  to amend the election law, in relation to deeming certain nomi-
          nating or designating petitions to be permeated with fraud and invali-
          dating the filings made by a contested candidate

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Section 16-102 of the election law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5. WHERE THE COURT HAS DETERMINED THAT A CUMULATIVE TOTAL  OF  TWENTY-
     4  FIVE PERCENT OR MORE OF ALL SIGNATURES ON A PETITION ARE FRAUDULENT, THE
     5  COURT  SHALL  ISSUE  A FINAL ORDER DECLARING THE ENTIRE PETITION INVALID
     6  AND PERMEATED WITH FRAUD.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15683-01-6