N.Y. Election Law § 5-306: Enrollment; correction of

§ 5-306. Enrollment; correction of. 1. If, after being regularly

registered in an election district, a voter discovers he has made a

mistake when enrolling, he may within one year from the date of his last

registration apply to the board of elections of the county or city in

which he resides for a correction of the mistake made by him when

marking his enrollment blank, by filing his affidavit setting forth

substantially as follows: how he is enrolled, and the town or city,

election district, and when required, the ward or assembly district, in

which he is registered, the street address, if any, from which he was

registered, a statement, in substance, that his current enrollment blank

was not marked correctly and that he did not intend to be so enrolled;

the name of the party with which he did intend to enroll and which he

desires to be entered on the registration records; a statement that he

has been duly and regularly enrolled with the party whose name he

desires entered on his registration records for at least five years

immediately preceding the registration at which such mistake occurred or

that he was not registered for all or part of such five year period; the

county or counties and the addresses at which he resided when he was so

enrolled; that he is in general sympathy with the principles of the

party with which he requests to be enrolled and intends to support

generally its nominees at the next general election, and a statement

that he has not enrolled in any party or participated in any primary

election or convention of any party during the past five years, other

than the one with which he requests to be enrolled.

2. If the applicant's certificate or, the registration records in the

office of such board show the applicant to have been registered during

such five year period elsewhere in the state of New York the board shall

require the applicant to produce a certified transcript of his

enrollment, if any, in such other jurisdiction within the state

accompanied with proof, by affidavit, showing his identity with the

person whose name appears in such transcript. If the records of any

board of elections within the state show the applicant to have been

enrolled during such five year period in any party other than the one

with which he requests to be enrolled, or to have been registered but

not enrolled, the application for correction of enrollment shall be

denied.

3. A voter may correct their enrollment pursuant hereto on any of the

days the board is open for registration. A correction made during the

nine-day period preceding a primary election shall not be effective for

such election.

4. Where such application for correction of enrollment is approved,

the board of elections shall enter the date of filing of the voter's

affidavit along with the new party of enrollment in the spaces provided

for entering enrollments on the back of his registration poll record or

in the computer file from which the computer generated registration

lists are prepared and the words "Enrollment Corrected" shall be entered

in the remarks space therein. If requested by any member of the board,

the correction of enrollment of any voter, or group of voters, must be

approved by two such board members or two employees of the board

representing different political parties. Such members or employees

shall place their initials or other identifying information on the

registration poll record of such voter, or on a computer generated list

of such corrections of enrollment. Such lists shall be preserved in the

same manner, and for the same time, as such registration poll records.

The board shall file such affidavit in a file specially maintained for

that purpose.