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N.Y. Election Law § 4-122: Lists of nomination; publication of by board of elections

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  1. Election Law
  2. Article 4. Proceedings Preliminary to Registration, Enrollment and Elections

§ 4-122. Lists of nomination; publication of by board of elections. 1.

The county board of elections shall publish, at least six days before an

election, a list containing the name of every candidate for public

office to be voted for within its jurisdiction at such election.

2. The candidates for the office of presidential electors shall, in

the list in subdivision one of this section, only be described as a

specific number of such electors, nominated to support the party

candidates, naming them, for the office of president and vice-president.

3. The list described in subdivision one of this section shall be

published at least once in not less than two nor more than four

newspapers in the county. In a county containing a city, at least one

such publication shall be in a daily newspaper published in a city

therein, if there be such a newspaper. In the case of a village election

held at a time other than the time of a general election, such

publication shall be in a newspaper having general circulation in such

village. So far as is consistent with this section, one such newspaper

shall represent each of the major political parties. Should the board of

elections find it impossible to make such publication six days before

election it shall make it at the earliest possible day thereafter before

the election.

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