New York Laws
Article 53 - School Elections in City School Districts of Cities With Less Than One Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Inhabitants
2609 - Conduct of Election; Challenges.

(b) Where such markers are so placed and the polls are open, no person
shall do any electioneering within the polling place, or within one
hundred feet therefrom in any public street, or within such distance in
any place in a public manner and no banner, poster or placard on behalf
of or in opposition to any candidate or issue to be voted upon shall be
allowed in or upon the polling place or within one hundred feet
therefrom during the election. For the purposes of this subdivision, the
one hundred foot distance shall be deemed to include a one hundred foot
radial measured from the entrances, designated by the inspectors of
election, to a building where such election is being held. This section
shall not be deemed to prohibit the board of trustees or board of
education from displaying within any polling place a copy or copies of
any proposition to be voted upon.
(c) Any person who wilfully violates the provisions of paragraph (b)
of this subdivision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
5. Any qualified voter of a city school district may challenge the
right of a person to vote at the time when he requests a ballot. All
persons named upon the applicable register as having been challenged
prior to the day of the election shall also be challenged before they
are given ballots to vote. The chairman of the board of inspectors shall
administer to each person so challenged the following oath: "I do
solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the United States;
that I am of the age of eighteen years or more; that I have been an

inhabitant of the State for the past year, a resident of the county for
the past four months and for the thirty days past an actual resident of
this city school district and am therefore qualified to vote at this
election." If the person challenged so swears or affirms, he shall be
permitted to vote at such election; but if he shall refuse to so swear
or affirm, he shall not be given a ballot or be permitted to vote.
6. A person who wilfully swears or affirms falsely as to his right to
vote at such election after his right to vote has been challenged is
guilty of perjury and may be punished in the manner provided by law for
the punishment of such crime. A person who is not qualified to vote at
such election who shall vote thereat, although not challenged, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than
twenty-five dollars, or by imprisonment for not less than thirty days,
or by both such fine and imprisonment.