N.Y. Election Law § 5-712: Confirmation notices

§ 5-712. Confirmation notices. 1. The board of elections shall send a

confirmation notice by forwardable first class or return postage

guaranteed mail to every registered voter or applicant for registration,

at the address at which the voter is registered or the address on the

application for registration, when any mail sent to such voter or

applicant is returned as undeliverable by the postal service without any

indication of a forwarding address and to any voter for whom notice that

the voter has moved without leaving a forwarding address, is received

from the United States Postal Service through the National Change of

Address System.

2. (a) The board of elections shall also send a confirmation notice to

every registered voter for whom it receives a notice of change of

address to an address not in such city or county which is not signed by

the voter. Such change of address notices shall include, but not be

limited to, notices of change of address received pursuant to

subdivision eleven of section 5-211 and subdivision six of section 5-212

of this article, notice of change of address from the United States

Postal Service through the National Change of Address System or from any

other agency of the federal government or any agency of any state or

local government and notice of a forwarding address on mail sent to a

voter by the board of elections and returned by the postal service. Such

confirmation notices shall be sent to such new address.

(b) If a notice sent pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision to

the voter at the new address is returned as undeliverable, the board of

elections shall send another such notice to the address at which the

voter was originally registered.

3. Such notices shall be in a form prescribed by the state board of

elections and shall include a postage-paid return card on which the

voter may confirm the fact that he still resides at the address to which

the notice was sent, or notify the board of any change of address. Such

notices shall request all voters who receive the notice to reply with

their current addresses. Such notices shall request all voters who

receive the notice to reply with their current addresses and shall state

that voters who have not moved or who have moved within the county or

city and who do not respond may be required to vote by affidavit ballot

and that if they do not vote in any election up to and including the

second federal election after such notice, their registrations may be

cancelled. Such notices sent to addresses in New York state shall also

include a mail registration form and information on how voters who have

moved to a different city or county may reregister.

4. No such confirmation notices shall be sent between June first in

any year and the date of the general election in such year or in the

ninety days before a spring primary election except that such notices

shall be sent forthwith to persons for whom an acknowledgment of

acceptance of registration sent pursuant to subdivision nine of section

5-210 of this article is returned to the board of elections as

undeliverable and to every registered voter for whom the board of

elections receives a notice of change of address described in paragraph

a of subdivision two of this section to an address not in such city or

county.

5. All voters or applicants to whom a confirmation notice is sent,

pursuant to the provisions of this section, shall forthwith be placed in

inactive status.