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S10212 • 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
William Weber
Last action
2026-05-05
Official status
In Senate 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. 2026-05-05 Senate

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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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                                          10212

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                       May 5, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBER  -- 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 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