New York Laws
Title 5 - Registration Records
5-502 - Registration Records; Supplies and Equipment.

§ 5-502. Registration records; supplies and equipment. 1. The board of
elections shall furnish in time for use by the boards of inspectors of
election, the registration records, an American flag, a map or certified
description of the election district, and the adjoining election
districts, challenge affidavits, absentee voting applications, a list of
voters who are currently registered in the election district, a list of
those voters who have been cancelled in the last year with the reason
for such cancellations, forms for statements of temporary absence, a
sufficient number of copies of the ballot proposals to be submitted to
the voters at the ensuing election, at least one copy of the instruction
booklet for inspectors and all other forms and supplies required for the
administration of the registration system as provided by this article.

2. The board of elections shall also maintain in its custody and
control:

a. At the headquarters of the board, filing cabinets and ledgers
sufficient in number and form to accommodate the records required by
this article to be kept at such headquarters or office.

b. Carrying cases sufficient to carry to and from the registration
places the ledgers, if any, and forms required by this chapter to be
available for use at such places.

3. Each ledger and cabinet shall be equipped with a lock of such a
nature that when the ledger or cabinet is locked it shall not be
possible to remove any record or form which has been filed therein, or
to file in it any other record or form. Each carrying case shall be
equipped with a lock. Each carrying case lock and its key shall bear an
identical distinctive identifying number.

4. Subject to the requirements of this article, the state board of
elections shall prescribe the number of and the form, content, color and
specifications of such registration records, lists, and check cards. It
may require such other forms, supplies and equipment as it deems
necessary to be furnished by the boards of elections and any other
officer charged with equipping the places for taking registrations.

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