Title ELN, Election

§ 5-604. Enrollment lists; publication of. 1. The board of elections shall also cause to be published for each election district a complete list of the registered voters of each election district. Such list shall, in addition to the information required for registration lists, i…

§ 5-606. Lists; certification of. 1. The board of elections shall certify to the correctness of any transcript of original registration or enrollment entries, or of any part thereof, on the payment of one cent for every twenty names contained in the transcript. 2. The board of e…

§ 5-608. Replacement of registration and enrollment records; damaged, unusable or lost. 1. If the registration or enrollment records of any voter shall be lost, mutilated, defaced or destroyed, the board of elections shall, except as provided in subdivision two hereof, require h…

§ 5-610. Registration records; new election district. When an election district is created, abolished or altered in any way, the board of elections shall do all things necessary to transfer the affected registration records to conform to the new plan of election districts and sh…

§ 5-612. Registration records; use by town or village clerks and for school district, improvement district and fire district elections. 1. The board of elections shall, not later than the twentieth day before a special town election and not later than the seventh day before a vi…

§ 5-614. Statewide voter registration list. 1. There shall be one official record of the registration of each voter. Such record shall be maintained in an interactive, statewide, computerized, voter registration list. Such statewide voter registration list shall constitute the o…

§ 5-700. Checks on registration. The board of elections shall permit only those persons to register or to remain registered who have the qualifications prescribed by this article.

§ 5-702. Voters' check cards; investigation. 1. The board of elections shall cause a bipartisan team of regular or special employees of such board to conduct an investigation of the qualifications to register and vote, or cause a voter's check card to be prepared for each voter …

§ 5-704. Notification to jurisdiction of prior registration. 1. Each board of elections shall, at least once a month, transmit to the appropriate boards of election, a list of all persons who have registered with such board of elections and stated that they were previously regis…

§ 5-708. Change of voter status; reports of. 1. It shall be the duty of the state health department and the department of health of the city of New York to deliver to the state board of elections, at least monthly, records, in a format as mutually determined by both agencies, of…

§ 5-710. Check of registrants; personal. 1. A special door to door check of all the registered voters in any or all of the election districts including election districts previously checked shall be conducted in any year upon the written filed request of any one member of the bo…

§ 5-712. Confirmation notices. 1. The board of elections shall send a confirmation notice by forwardable first class or return postage guaranteed mail to every registered voter or applicant for registration, at the address at which the voter is registered or the address on the a…

§ 5-800. Electronic voter registration transmittal system. In addition to any other means of voter registration provided for by this chapter, the state board of elections shall establish and maintain an electronic voter registration transmittal system through which applicants ma…

§ 5-802. Online voter registration application. 1. A voter shall be able to apply to register to vote using a personal online voter registration application submitted through the electronic voter registration transmittal system when the voter: (a) completes an electronic voter r…

§ 5-804. Failure to provide exemplar signature not to prevent registration. 1. If a voter registration exemplar signature is not provided by an applicant who submits a voter registration application pursuant to this title, the local board shall seek to obtain such exemplar signa…

§ 5-900. Integrated personal voter registration application required. 1. In addition to any other method of voter registration provided for by this chapter, state and local agencies designated in subdivisions thirteen and fourteen of this section shall provide to the state board…

§ 5-902. Failure to receive exemplar signature not to prevent registration. If a voter registration exemplar signature is not received from an applicant who submits a voter registration or pre-registration application pursuant to this title and such signature exemplar is not oth…

§ 5-904. Presumption of innocent authorized error. 1. Notwithstanding subdivision six of section 5-210 of this article or any other law to the contrary, a person who is ineligible to vote who fails to decline to register or pre-register to vote in accordance with the provisions …

§ 5-906. Forms. The state board of elections shall promulgate rules and regulations to implement this title. All agency forms and notices required by this title shall be approved by the state board of elections. All applications and notices for use by a board of elections pursua…

§ 6-100. Nominations and designations; generally. Nomination and designation of candidates for election to public office or party position are governed by this article.

§ 6-102. Party nominations; electors, presidential. Party nominations of candidates for the office of elector of president and vice president of the United States, one for each congressional district and two at large, shall be made by the state committee.

§ 6-104. Party designation; statewide office. 1. Party designation of a candidate for nomination for any office to be filled by the voters of the entire state shall be made by the state committee. A designation for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor, shall be made j…

§ 6-106. Party nominations; justice of the supreme court. Party nominations for the office of justice of the supreme court shall be made by the judicial district convention.

§ 6-108. Party nominations; towns. 1. In any town in a county having a population of over seven hundred fifty thousand inhabitants, as shown by the latest federal decennial or special population census, party nominations of candidates for town offices shall be made at the primar…

§ 6-110. Party nominations; public office. All other party nominations of candidates for offices to be filled at a general election, except as provided for herein, shall be made at the primary election.

§ 6-114. Party nominations; special election. Party nominations for an office to be filled at a special election shall be made in the manner prescribed by the rules of the party.

§ 6-116. Party nominations; election to fill a vacancy. A party nomination of a candidate for election to fill a vacancy in an elective office required to be filled at the next general election, occurring after seven days before the last day for circulating designating petitions…

§ 6-118. Designation and nomination by petition. Except as otherwise provided by this article, the designation of a candidate for party nomination at a primary election and the nomination of a candidate for election to a party position to be elected at a primary election shall b…

§ 6-120. Designation and nomination; restrictions. 1. A petition, except as otherwise herein provided, for the purpose of designating any person as a candidate for party nomination at a primary election shall be valid only if the person so designated is an enrolled member of the…

§ 6-122. Designation or nomination; eligibility, restrictions. A person shall not be designated or nominated for a public office or party position who (1) is not a citizen of the state of New York; (2) is ineligible to be elected to such office or position; or (3) who, if electe…

§ 6-124. Conventions; judicial. A judicial district convention shall be constituted by the election at the preceding primary of delegates and alternate delegates, if any, from each assembly district or, if an assembly district shall contain all or part of two or more counties an…

§ 6-126. Conventions; rules for holding. 1. The time and place of meeting of a convention shall be fixed, within the times prescribed herein, by a committee appointed pursuant to the rules of the state committee. The room designated for the meeting place of a convention shall ha…

§ 6-128. New party; first nominations by. 1. When an independent body becomes a party at a general election by qualifying under the requirements set by law, nominations shall, prior to and including the first general election thereafter, be made as provided by the rules of such …

§ 6-130. Designating petition; signer information. The sheets of a designating petition must set forth in every instance the name of the signer, his or her residence address, town or city (except in the city of New York, the county), and the date when the signature is affixed. …

§ 6-132. Designating petition; form. 1. Each sheet of a designating petition shall be signed in ink and shall contain the following information and shall be in substantially the following form: I, the undersigned, do hereby state that I am a duly enrolled voter of the...........…

§ 6-134. Designating petition; rules. 1. A designating petition may designate candidates for nomination for one or more different public offices or for nomination for election to one or more party positions or both, but designations or nominations for which the petitions are req…

§ 6-136. Designating petitions; number of signatures. 1. Petitions for\nany office to be filled by the voters of the entire state must be signed\nby not less than fifteen thousand or five per centum, whichever is less,\nof the then enrolled voters of the party in the state (excl…

§ 6-138. Independent nominations; rules. 1. Independent nominations for public office shall be made by a petition containing the signatures of registered voters of the political unit for which a nomination is made who are registered to vote. The name of a person signing such a p…

§ 6-140. Independent nominations; form of petition. 1. a. Each sheet of an independent nominating petition shall be signed in ink, shall contain the following information and shall be in substantially the following form: I, the undersigned, do hereby state that I am a registered…

§ 6-142. Independent nominations; number of signatures. 1. An\nindependent nominating petition for candidates to be voted for by all\nthe voters of the state must be signed by at least forty-five thousand\nvoters, or one percent of the total number of votes, excluding blank and\…

§ 6-144. Nominating and designating petitions and certificates; place for filing. Petitions, certificates and minutes specified in this article shall be filed in the office of the Board of Elections of the county, except as follows: for an office or position to be voted for whol…

§ 6-146. Nomination and designation; declination or acceptance. 1. A person designated as a candidate for nomination or for party position, or nominated for an office, otherwise than at a primary election, may, in a certificate signed and acknowledged by him, and filed as provid…

§ 6-147. Multiple designations of a candidate for a party position. 1. The name of a person designated on more than one petition as a candidate for a party position to be filled by two or more persons shall be printed on the ballot with the group of candidates designated by the …

§ 6-148. Nomination and designation; filling vacancies. 1. A vacancy in a designation or nomination caused by declination, where a declination is permitted by this article, or by the death or disqualification of the candidate, or by a tie vote at a primary, may be filled by the …

§ 6-150. Nomination; vacancy caused by death or disqualification, unfilled at time of general or special election. If a vacancy shall occur in a nomination, caused by disqualification or death of the candidate subsequent to noon of the Tuesday before a general or special electio…

§ 6-152. Vacancies caused by death or disqualification and unfilled at time of primary election. If a vacancy shall occur in a designation of a candidate for nomination or election at a primary election, caused by the death or disqualification of a candidate subsequent to noon o…

§ 6-153. Certificate of candidacy by write-in candidates for president and vice president. 1. Any person who wishes to be a write-in candidate for president of the United States shall, not later than the third Tuesday before the general election, file a certificate of candidacy …

§ 6-154. Nominations and designations; objections to. 1. Any petition or certificate filed with the officer or board charged with the duty of receiving it shall be presumptively valid if it is in proper form and appears to bear the requisite number of signatures, authenticated i…

§ 6-156. Party nominations; certification. Certificates of nominations, made otherwise than at a primary, shall contain the name of the political party making the nomination, the title of the office for which such person is nominated, the name and residence of the nominee, the c…

§ 6-158. Nominating and designating petitions and certificates, conventions; times for filing and holding. 1. A designating petition shall be filed not earlier than the thirteenth Monday before, and not later than the twelfth Thursday preceding the primary election. * 1-a. Notwi…