New York Laws
Title 1 - Statewide Provisions
3-102 - State Board of Elections; General Powers and Duties.

(b) prescribe the information required in the form for each statement
to be filed;
(c) establish an educational and training program on all reporting
requirements including but not limited to the electronic reporting
process and make it easily and readily available to any such candidate
or committee;
(d) make the electronic reporting process available to any such
candidate or committee which is required to file or which agrees to file
such statements by such electronic reporting process;
(e) cause all information contained in such a statement filed with the
state board of elections which is not on such electronic reporting
system to be entered into such system as soon as practicable but in no
event later than ten business days after its receipt by the state board
of elections; and
(f) make all data from electronic reporting process available at all
times on the internet.
10. establish rules allowing the admission of news media
representatives to the area of the polling place where the canvass of
ballots cast can be directly observed;
11. recommend such legislation or administrative measures as it finds
appropriate to promote fair, honest and efficiently administered
elections, including, but not limited to, legislation to adjust the
contribution limitations set forth in article fourteen of this chapter;
12. monitor the adequacy and effectiveness of the election laws and
report thereon at least annually to the governor and the legislature;
13. compile the information required with respect to the operation of
the National Voter Registration Act and report such information annually
to the governor, the legislature and the Federal Election Commission
together with an assessment of the operation of such act and any
recommendations for changes and improvements.
14. take all appropriate steps to encourage the broadest possible
voter participation in elections including the administration of a
program of registration form distribution by participating state
agencies as prescribed by section 5-211 of this chapter;
15. receive from the secretary of the senate and the clerk of the
assembly a list of the mailing addresses of senators and members of the
assembly. When members of the public, government officials, or agencies
request the mailing addresses of senators and members of the assembly,
the mailing addresses submitted to the board by the secretary of the
senate and the clerk of the assembly shall be provided;
16. administer the administrative complaint procedure as provided for
in section 3-105 of this article;
16-a. provide the department of corrections and community supervision
with a sufficient number of voter registration forms to allow the
department of corrections and community supervision to comply with the
duty to provide such voter registration forms to persons upon the
expiration of their maximum sentence of imprisonment. Such voter
registration forms shall be addressed to the state board of elections.
16-b. Develop and implement a program to educate attorneys, judges,
election officials, corrections officials, including parole and
probation officers, and members of the public regarding the requirements
of the chapter of the laws of two thousand twenty-one which added this
subdivision.
17. perform such other acts as may be necessary to carry out the
purposes of this chapter.
18. promulgate rules and regulations to provide for the ability of
individuals who do not exclusively identify as a binary gender to run
for positions elected in gendered contests which respect the

individuals' gender identity. In no case shall the board of elections
promulgate rules that are inconsistent with a system that requires
individuals filing for candidacy to self-identify their gender marker as
"M", "F", or "X", requires all candidates to run in a single race, and
maintains requirements for gender diversity.