N.Y. Const. art. II, § 8: Bi-partisan registration and election boards

§ 8. All laws creating, regulating or affecting boards or officers

charged with the duty of qualifying voters, or of distributing ballots

to voters, or of receiving, recording or counting votes at elections,

shall secure equal representation of the two political parties which, at

the general election next preceding that for which such boards or

officers are to serve, cast the highest and the next highest number of

votes. All such boards and officers shall be appointed or elected in

such manner, and upon the nomination of such representatives of said

parties respectively, as the legislature may direct. Existing laws on

this subject shall continue until the legislature shall otherwise

provide. This section shall not apply to town, or village elections.