A7857 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Allows individuals detained in any correctional or local correctional facility to vote at polling places located within the facility if they are registered to vote and are otherwise eligible; provides for polling places within correctional facilities; provides for automatic changes in voter status; includes bi-partisan boards of elections officials and inspectors as persons who may visit correctional facilities.
- Title
- Relates to polling places in detention facilities and the voting rights and status of incarcerated persons
- Type
- New York State Assembly bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-01-07
- In committee
- Election Law
- Introduced
- 2025-04-11
- Law section
- Election Law
Sponsors
- Latrice M. Walker Assembly Member, District 55
Co-sponsors
- Al Taylor Assembly Member, District 71
Heard in committee
- Election Law NY State Assembly committee