N.Y. Election Law § 5-215: Veterans' absentee registration

§ 5-215. Veterans' absentee registration. 1. The board of elections in

the county in which a veterans' hospital is located shall appoint a

board of registration which shall attend each veterans' hospital between

the hours of nine o'clock in the morning and five o'clock in the evening

on the seventh Thursday before each general election and, in the event

that it be necessary for the completion of its duties, on the seventh

Friday before such election except that if any of the religious holidays

of Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Simchas Torah, Shmini Atzereth or Succoth

shall fall on such days, such registration shall be held on the next

regular business day which does not fall on any of such religious

holidays, and shall receive from residents or patients therein, or their

spouses, parents and children, the applications of such of them as

desire and are qualified to be registered by absentee registration.

2. After the applicant completes and signs the application, or has it

signed for him, it shall be deposited by or for him in an envelope and

sealed. Before receiving the next application the board shall address

the envelope to the board of elections in the county where the applicant

resides and note upon a form provided for such purpose the date of the

application, the name and residence address of the applicant and the

name of the hospital at which the application was received.

3. At the end of each day each member of such board shall sign the

form containing the list of applicants with their names and addresses

and they shall, no later than the next day, return the list and the

sealed envelopes to the board of elections in the county where such

hospital is located.

4. The board of elections upon receipt of such applications shall

immediately mail those applications that are addressed to another board

of elections and shall process those applications addressed to it.

5. If a veterans health administration hospital in which any veteran

entitled to vote in this state is a resident or patient, is located

outside the State of New York, an application for an early mail or

absentee ballot signed by such veteran or his or her spouse, parent or

child accompanying or being with him or her, if a qualified voter and a

resident of the same election district, shall constitute permanent

personal registration.

6. All applications made and received pursuant to this section shall

be processed in the manner provided herein for personal registration by

mail.

7. The cost incurred by the county in which such veterans' hospital is

located, for the registration of voters as herein provided, may be

apportioned to the counties in which such voters reside in proportion to

the number of applicants for such registration residing in such

counties.

8. The board of elections shall not be required to send a board of

central registration to each veterans' hospital in such county, pursuant

to the provisions of this section, if, in lieu thereof, it shall provide

such hospital with mail registration application forms in sufficient

quantity so that each resident or patient of such hospital who wishes to

register will be able to do so. A complete application received from a

resident or patient whose residence is in a county other than the county

in which the hospital is located shall be immediately transmitted to the

appropriate board of elections.