S 1870 NY

Relates to the number of signatures for independent nominating petitions

NY · session 2025-2026 · Senate · bill

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Introduced Jan 14, 2025

Latest action (Jan 7, 2026) REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

Summary

Relates to the number of signatures for independent nominating petitions; decreases the number of signatures and votes to 15,000 signatures for statewide candidates and 50,000 votes to maintain party ballot status; changes the petition period to 12 weeks and the petitioning time to May-August.

Sponsor (1)

Mark Walczyk Republican · primary

1 coauthor / cosponsor

George Borrello Republican · cosponsor

Action history (2)

Jan 14, 2025 REFERRED TO ELECTIONS · upper
Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO ELECTIONS · upper

Text versions (2)

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S1870 · HTML
S1870 · PDF

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