New York Laws
Article 4 - Proceedings Preliminary to Registration, Enrollment and Elections
4-104 - Registration and Polling Places; Designation Of.

(b) Whenever the total number of voters eligible to vote in any
primary or special election, in any two election districts whose polling
places are regularly located in the same building, is less than four
hundred, the board of elections may assign the inspectors of election of
the election district which contains the greater number of such voters,
to act also, in all respects, as the election officers of the other such
election district and no other election officers shall be appointed to
serve in or for such other election district at such primary or special
election. A separate poll ledger or computer generated registration
list, separate voting machine or ballots and separate canvass of results
shall be provided for each such election district.
(c) Whenever all the candidates to be voted upon at a primary
election, except a primary election in the city of New York, or all the
candidates and ballot proposals to be voted upon at a special election,
or at a school board election conducted by the board of elections, or at
a general election in the city of New York in a year in which there is
no election for electors of president and vice-president of the United

States or governor of the state or mayor of such city, by the voters of
any two or more election districts whose polling places are regularly
located in the same building are identical, the board of elections may
combine such election districts for that election, provided that the
total number of voters eligible to vote in any such combined election
district does not exceed one thousand two hundred in a primary election
or does not exceed two thousand in a special election or a general
election in the city of New York.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, polling
places designated for any one such election district that will be
utilizing any voting machine or system certified for use in New York
state pursuant to chapter one hundred eighty-one of the laws of two
thousand five, may be the polling place of any other contiguous district
or districts, provided the voting system used in such polling place
produces separate and distinct vote totals for each election district
voting in such polling place on such voting machine or system.
5-a. Whenever a contiguous property of a college or university
contains three hundred or more registrants who are registered to vote at
any address on such contiguous property, the polling place designated
for such registrants shall be on such contiguous property or at a nearby
location recommended by the college or university and agreed to by the
board of elections.
6. Each polling place designated, whenever practicable, shall be
situated on the main or ground floor of the premises selected. It shall
be of sufficient area to admit and comfortably accommodate voters in
numbers consistent with the deployment of voting systems and privacy
booths, pursuant to 9 NYCRR 6210.19. Such deployment of voting systems,
election workers and election resources shall be in a sufficient number
to accommodate the numbers of voters eligible to vote in such polling
place.
6-a. Each polling place designated, whenever practicable, shall be
situated directly on a public transportation route.
7. No polling place shall be located on premises owned or leased by a
person holding public office or who is a candidate for public office at
a primary or general election.
8. Whenever the board of elections shall determine that there is no
building within an election district available and suitable for the
meetings for the registration of voters or for any election, or that for
reasons of efficiency or economy it is desirable to consolidate such
meetings of one or more districts in one place, such board may designate
a building for such purpose in an adjoining district in the same
village, city or town and there may be as many distinctly separate
meetings or polling places lawfully located in the same building as
public convenience may require. Wherever possible, public schools, fire
houses, municipal buildings or other buildings exempt from taxation
shall be designated for such meetings and polling places. Such a
determination shall be made only after notice to the chairpersons of the
county committees of all political parties and reasonable opportunity
for them to be heard.