N.Y. Election Law § 5-600: Registration records; filing of

§ 5-600. Registration records; filing of. 1. The board of elections

shall keep all registration records, when not in use at the polls for an

election, at its main office, or a branch office designated by it. Such

records shall be kept in locked ledgers or locked filing cabinets and

shall not be removed from the office or branch office of the board of

elections, except that the registration poll records of all voters

entitled to vote at an election shall be delivered as provided in this

chapter to the appropriate election district polling places for use at

such election.

2. The central file registration records shall be filed for the entire

county using a system permitting location by name. Cancelled

registration records shall be filed separately and shall be arranged in

the same manner as current registration records.

3. The registration poll records shall be classified by election

districts, the records for each election district being filed according

to street, by number, and alphabetically within any address or in the

discretion of the board of elections they may be filed alphabetically by

name of voter.

4. Any registration record not completed because of the refusal of a

board of inspectors to register an applicant shall be filed by the board

of elections with the cancelled registration records as if the person

affected had registered and his registration had been cancelled.

5. After receipt thereof from a board of inspectors at the close of a

period of local registration, the board of elections, before removing

any records or blank forms from any ledger containing registration

records of voters registered during such period, shall compare such

records and blanks with the certificate filed by such board of

inspectors. It shall investigate any discrepancy between such returned

material and the information contained on such certificate and if such

discrepancy is not satisfactorily resolved, it shall, at the request of

any commissioner, make a written report thereof in triplicate and send

one copy of such report to the district attorney and one to the state

board of elections and keep the third copy on file at its office as a

public record. The board of elections shall then remove the records and

blanks from the ledgers and shall file them as provided herein.