N.Y. Election Law § 7-120: Ballots; emergency use, to be furnished

§ 7-120. Ballots; emergency use, to be furnished. 1. If any voting

machine or voting system for use in any election shall become out of

order during an election it shall, if possible, be repaired or another

machine or voting system substituted as promptly as possible. In case

such repair or substitution cannot be made, emergency ballots, printed

or written, and of any suitable form, shall be provided by the board of

elections and may be used for the casting of votes.

2. If the official ballots for an election district shall not be

delivered within the time necessary to open the polls, or shall be lost,

destroyed or stolen, or if the supply of official ballots shall be

exhausted before the polls are closed, the board of elections, or at its

direction, the town or city clerk, or the election inspectors of such

district, shall cause emergency ballots to be prepared, printed or

written, as nearly in the form of the official ballots as practicable.

The inspectors shall use the ballots so substituted in the same manner,

as near as may be, as the official ballots.

3. It shall be the duty of each board of elections to cause a

sufficient number of emergency ballots to be placed at each polling

place in which voting machines or voting systems are used, to be

employed in the event the voting machines or voting systems break down.

At any time during the hour succeeding a breakdown, the inspectors of

election may use such emergency ballots, and if such breakdown lasts

more than one hour, such emergency ballots must be used. The sample

ballots may be used for this purpose in full or reduced size.