New York Laws
Title 1 - Canvass at Polling Places
9-126 - Unofficial Tally of Election Results.

(b) The board of elections shall remain open after the close of the
polls and shall receive and tabulate the voting results as they are
received. The board of elections shall make such unofficial results
available to the media and the state board of elections, and shall post
running totals in a public place and on the internet as the results
become known to it.
3. The results made public pursuant to this section shall be released
as the unofficial tally.
4. A county board of elections may require the chair of the board of
inspectors in each election district to report unofficial election night
results by telephone, fax or other means. Such results shall include the
total aggregate number of votes received by each person voted for, the
total aggregate number of write-ins and the number of votes cast for and
against each ballot proposal.
5. (a) The board of elections of counties in which voting machines
which have portable memory devices are used, may establish written
procedures consistent with the provisions of this section and filed with
the state board of elections by which such devices may be used to
provide the unofficial tally of results required by this section.
(b) Such procedures may include: the installation, at the board of
elections or at town or city halls, police stations, sheriff's offices
or other public buildings, of machines which record and transmit the
totals recorded in such devices to the board of elections or directly to
a representative of the press; the delivery of the devices from the
polling places to such locations and the removal of such devices, by at
least two clerks or other agents of such board of elections of opposite
political parties, from the containers or envelopes in which they were

sealed at the polling places and the insertion of such devices into such
machines.
(c) In the city of New York, unless the board of elections of such
city designates two clerks or other agents of opposite political parties
for delivery of the devices from the polling places to such locations,
police officers or peace officers designated by the police commissioner
of such city shall provide such delivery as soon as practicable.
(d) The board of elections shall provide containers, at all such
locations other than the offices of such board, into which all such
devices shall be placed by the clerks or other agents of such board of
elections after they are removed from such machines. Such containers
shall be sealed by such clerks or agents who shall also enter on a
certificate which shall be printed on each such container, the total
number of such devices placed in such container and the election
districts from which such devices came. Such clerks shall also sign such
certificate in the places provided.
(e) Such containers shall be delivered to the board of elections by
the public officials in whose offices such machines were installed
within twenty-four hours after the closing of the polls. In the city of
New York, unless the board of elections of such city designates two
clerks or other agents of opposite political parties for delivery of
such containers to the board of elections, police officers or peace
officers designated by the police commissioner of such city shall
deliver such containers. The board of elections shall give such
officials, police officers, or peace officers a receipt therefor which
states therein the date and hour of delivery, the name of the person
making the delivery and the name of the person to whom such delivery was
made. The board of elections shall keep a duplicate of such receipt on
file at the office of such board.
(f) The cost of installing such machines at locations other than the
board of elections and the cost of transmitting the results from such
machines may be paid by the board of elections or by a representative of
the press. If such results are transmitted from a location other than
the board of elections directly to a representative of the press, such
cost shall be paid by such representative of the press.