---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to the presidential primary, to provide for the election of delegates to a national party convention or a national party conference in 2024, and provisions regarding ballots and affirmations; repealer"
description: "Relates to the presidential primary, to provide for the election of delegates to a national party convention or a national party conference in 2024; schedules the presidential primary election for April 2, 2024; updates the political calendar accordingly; requires cure affirmations for curing ballots to be received by the board of elections no later than 7 business days after the board's mailing of the curable rejection notice or the day before the election, whichever is later; provides that any write-in vote for a candidate whether or not such candidate's name is on the ballot for that contest shall be counted for such candidate unless such write-in vote creates an invalid overvote in the contest; allows ballot envelopes without a postmark to be a curable defect; requires additional attestations to cure such defect; relates to the ability and proceeding to contest certain certificates to fill a vacancy in a designation; provides that absentee ballots may be canvassed at the poll site on election day; provides that no board of elections shall commence a full manual recount of a particular contest unless and until such board has completed and announced the results of the recanvas otherwise required, for each applicable election district."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "A 7690"
citation: "New York A 7690 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carl Heastie"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-06-05"
last_action: "2023-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14f634a8-fc43-4d29-b275-806fe9b1b178"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A7690"
source_hash: "91295ab199503c1cedc0385603683f52d12be5285f09fbd862ec1e8b28b34636"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York A 7690 (2023-2024) — Relates to the presidential primary, to provide for the election of delegates to a national party convention or a national party conference in 2024, and provisions regarding ballots and affirmations; repealer

Relates to the presidential primary, to provide for the election of delegates to a national party convention or a national party conference in 2024; schedules the presidential primary election for April 2, 2024; updates the political calendar accordingly; requires cure affirmations for curing ballots to be received by the board of elections no later than 7 business days after the board's mailing of the curable rejection notice or the day before the election, whichever is later; provides that any write-in vote for a candidate whether or not such candidate's name is on the ballot for that contest shall be counted for such candidate unless such write-in vote creates an invalid overvote in the contest; allows ballot envelopes without a postmark to be a curable defect; requires additional attestations to cure such defect; relates to the ability and proceeding to contest certain certificates to fill a vacancy in a designation; provides that absentee ballots may be canvassed at the poll site on election day; provides that no board of elections shall commence a full manual recount of a particular contest unless and until such board has completed and announced the results of the recanvas otherwise required, for each applicable election district.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **A7690** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A7690&term=2023&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **41–21** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **98–47** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carl Heastie — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-06-05** REFERRED TO ELECTION LAW `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** REFERENCE CHANGED TO CODES `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-08** REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-08** REPORTED
- **2023-06-08** RULES REPORT CAL.743
- **2023-06-08** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.743
- **2023-06-08** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2023-06-08** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2023-06-08** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-08** SUBSTITUTED FOR S7550
- **2023-06-08** 3RD READING CAL.1791
- **2023-06-08** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2023-06-08** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2023-09-19** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2023-09-20** SIGNED CHAP.474 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/14f634a8-fc43-4d29-b275-806fe9b1b178`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).