N.Y. Election Law § 11-302: Special ballots for board of election employees

§ 11-302. Special ballots for board of election employees. A person

who is an employee of the board of elections or who has been appointed

to serve as an inspector of elections, poll clerk or election

coordinator at a polling place other than the one at which he or she is

registered to vote, may deliver to the inspectors of election of the

election district in which he or she is registered, or to the board of

elections, at any time during the period in which an application for an

absentee ballot may be so delivered pursuant to the provisions of this

chapter, a written statement that he or she will be unable to appear at

the polling place for such election district on the day of an election

because his or her duties as an employee of such board or as an

inspector, poll clerk or election coordinator require him or her to be

elsewhere. The board of elections shall provide such voter a special

ballot any time prior to the close of the polls on election day,

provided however that the distribution of such ballots to such voters

shall be timed to afford such voters sufficient time to cast such

ballots prior to the close of the polls on election day. Such cast

ballots may be delivered to an office of such board of elections or to

any board of inspectors not later than the close of the polls on

election day. Such ballots shall be retained at the board of elections

and cast and canvassed pursuant to the provisions of section 9-209 of

this chapter.