N.Y. Election Law § 5-601: Registration records; physically disabled voters

§ 5-601. Registration records; physically disabled voters. 1. A

physically disabled voter whose polling place is located in a building

that is not accessible shall be entitled to vote in any other election

district whose polling place is located in a building which is

accessible, provided that the candidates and ballot proposals on the

ballot in such other election district are the same as those on the

ballot in the election district in which such voter resides.

2. A written application by a disabled voter to have his registration

record transferred to an election district which has an accessible

polling place shall be valid for an election occurring more than

fourteen days after it is received by the board of elections and, if the

voter is permanently disabled, for all subsequent elections. Such

application may specify the election district to which the voter wishes

his registration records transferred.

3. The board of elections shall keep all such applications from

permanently disabled voters on file at its office. Not later than

twelve days before each election, the board shall transfer the records

of each voter for whom it has such an application and who continues to

be registered from the address on such application to an election

district in the polling place specified in such application. If the

application does not specify such an election district, or if the

election district so specified is not one to which such records properly

may be transferred for such election, the board of elections shall

transfer such record to the election district among those to which it

may properly be transferred for such election, which is located in the

accessible polling place closest to the residence of the applicant.

4. If such registration records are in the form of registration poll

records, the board of elections, before transferring any such

registration record, shall make a photocopy thereof. Such photocopies

shall be kept on file in the offices of such board in case such

registration poll record is lost.

5. Upon removing such a registration poll record from a poll ledger,

the board of elections shall insert in such poll ledger, at the place

where such registration poll record was filed, a form giving the name

and address of the voter, stating that the registration poll record was

moved pursuant to the provisions of this section and giving the number

of the election district to which such registration poll record was

moved and the location of the polling place for such election district.

6. If such registration records are kept in the form of computer

generated registration lists, the board of elections at the time such

registration record is transferred, shall cause to be entered on the

computer generated registration at the place where such registration

record would have appeared, the name and address of the voter but

without the computer reproduced facsimile of the voter's signature and

either a notation that such record was moved pursuant to the provisions

of this section together with the number of the election district to

which such record was moved and the location of the polling place for

such election district or a notation stating where, in such computer

generated registration list, such information is provided.

7. Not later than ten days before each election, the board of

elections shall mail to each voter who has made application pursuant to

the provisions of this section, by first class mail, information

specifying the number and location of the election district to which his

records have been transferred or that there is no election district to

which such records may properly be transferred which is located in an

accessible polling place.

8. If the board determines that there is no election district in an

accessible polling place to which such voter's record may properly be

transferred for a particular election, it shall treat the application of

such voter as an application for an absentee ballot for such election

and forthwith mail such absentee ballot to such voter at his residence

address together with the notice required by subdivision seven of this

section.

9. The board of elections shall compile a list, arranged by election

districts of residence, of the names and addresses of all voters whose

registration records have been moved pursuant to the provisions of this

section and the number of the election district to which such

registration record was moved. Not later than six days before election

day, the board of elections shall send a copy of such list to the county

chairman of each party. Such list shall be a public record at the office

of such board of elections.

10. The state board of elections shall prescribe a standard form of

application for use under this section and all forms necessary to carry

out the provisions of this section.