A11288 • 2025

Warns voters about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms

Elections

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Sponsor: Diana Moreno
Last action: 2026-05-08
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Warns voters about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms

Warns voters about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms Provides voters with a warning about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms.

What This Bill Does

Warns voters about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms Provides voters with a warning about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms.

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Bill History

2026-05-08 Assembly
REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW

Official Summary Text

Warns voters about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms
Provides voters with a warning about New York's closed primary system on voter registration forms.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11288

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                       May 8, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Moreno) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to notifying  voters  that
          New York practices a closed primary system

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 5  of  section  5-210  of  the
     2  election  law, as amended by chapter 113 of the laws of 2023, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (f) Notice [that political] IN BOLD AND PROMINENT TYPE, STATING:  "THE
     5  STATE  OF  NEW  YORK  PRACTICES A CLOSED PARTY PRIMARY SYSTEM. POLITICAL
     6  party enrollment is optional, but [that,] in order to vote in a  primary
     7  election  of  a  political  party, a voter must enroll in that political
     8  party, unless state party rules allow [otherwise] OTHERWISE".
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect 2 years after it shall have  become  a
    10  law.







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