New York Laws
Title 1 - Canvass at Polling Places
9-124 - Returns of Canvass, Procedure After.

(b) Records and supplies to be filed with a city, town or village
clerk shall be so filed or delivered immediately after the completion of
the returns of the canvass, by an inspector designated by the board of
inspectors. Returns, papers and registration poll records or computer
generated registration lists to be filed with the board of elections
shall be so filed by the chairman of the board of inspectors within
twenty-four hours after the completion of such returns. The person
receiving such returns in the board of elections shall give to the
person delivering the returns a receipt stating therein the date and
hour of delivery, the name of the person making the delivery, and to
whom said returns were delivered and shall keep a duplicate of said
receipt on file in the office of the board of elections.
(c) In the city of New York, the board of inspectors shall deliver to
police or peace officers designated by the police commissioner of such
city, at the polling place the registration poll records or computer
generated registration lists, challenge report, records, keys, other
election supplies, including two copies of the returns of the canvass
and any absentee, military, special federal, or special presidential

ballots which may have been delivered to the poll site during election
day, voted ballots, stubs, open packages of unused ballots and ballot
envelopes. Such police or peace officers shall file the returns, the
package of void and protested ballots, if any, and the absentee,
military, special federal, special presidential ballots which may have
been delivered to the poll site during election day; and emergency
ballots, stubs and ballot envelopes, if any, within twenty-four hours
after the close of the polls, in the office of the board of elections or
its branch office within the borough, as the case may be.