N.Y. Election Law § 5-302: Enrollment; completion

§ 5-302. Enrollment; completion. 1. Before placing the registration

poll record in the poll ledger or in the computer generated registration

list, the board shall enter in the space provided therefor the name of

the party designated by the voter on his application form, provided such

party continues to be a party as defined in this law. If such party

ceases to be a party at any time, either before or after such enrollment

is so entered, the enrollment of such voter shall be deemed to be blank

and shall be entered as such until such voter files an application for

change of enrollment pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. The

board shall enter the date of such entry and affix initials thereto in

the space provided.

2. If the application form is for a voter who has changed his

enrollment or a voter who has previously registered and not enrolled,

then the board of elections shall compare the information and the

signature appearing on each application form received with that on the

registration poll record of the applicant and if found to correspond in

all particulars shall, not earlier than the Tuesday following the next

general election and not later than the thirtieth day preceding the last

day for publishing enrollment lists, proceed in the manner specified in

subdivision one hereof to enter such enrollment on such voter's

registration poll card.

3. If marks are found in more than one of the boxes or circles or if

no marks are found in any of the boxes or circles of any application

form, the voter who used the application form shall be deemed not to be

enrolled, and the words blank or void shall be entered in the space

reserved on his registration poll record for the name of a political

party or in the computer files from which the computer generated

registration lists are prepared. However if such application form sets

forth the address of prior registration and such prior registration had

not been previously cancelled, the party enrollment, if any, which is

part of such prior registration shall be entered in such space on such

registration poll record or in such computer files.

4. Registration poll records of voters whose registrations are not

rejected by the board of elections shall forthwith be placed in the poll

ledger or such voters' names shall forthwith be entered in the computer

files from which the computer generated registration lists are prepared,

except that the registration poll record of an otherwise qualified voter

who registers after the tenth day before a primary election shall not be

placed in such poll ledger or such voters' names shall not appear on

such a computer generated registration list until after such primary and

except further that the registration poll record of a voter whose

previous registration was cancelled pursuant to the provisions of this

chapter after the previous general election and who registers pursuant

to the provisions of this chapter after such cancellation shall not be

placed in such poll ledger or such voters' names shall not appear on

such a computer generated registration list until after the fall primary

election, unless such voter has enrolled with the same party as the

enrollment on the registration which was so cancelled.

The registration poll record of a voter who is not eligible to vote in

a primary election but who is eligible to vote in a special election

held before such primary election shall be placed in its regular place

in the poll ledger or in a special section of such poll ledger for such

special election as the board of elections, in its discretion, shall

provide, or such name shall appear in its regular place on the computer

generated registration list prepared for use in such special election.

Such poll record shall be removed from such poll ledger or computer

generated registration list immediately after such special election.

5. During the period preceding the ensuing primary election, the board

of elections shall maintain as a public record a list of all enrollments

entered, transferred or corrected, and not contained in the last

published enrollment list. Such supplemental enrollment list shall

contain the same information and shall be distributed in the same manner

as the original enrollment list not later than the tenth day before the

primary election.