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N.Y. Election Law § 8-300: Voting; manner of

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  1. Election Law
  2. Article 8. Conduct of Elections
  3. Title 3. Casting the Ballot

§ 8-300. Voting; manner of. 1. The inspectors shall admit within the

voting area only two voters at a time for each ballot scanner, ballot

marking device, or privacy booth and shall ascertain whether each such

voter is entitled to vote. If he or she is found to be entitled to vote,

he or she shall be permitted to proceed to the ballot scanner, ballot

marking device, or privacy booth to vote.

2. The operating of the ballot scanner by the voter while voting or

the use of a privacy booth or ballot marking device for marking a ballot

shall be secret and obscured from all other persons except as provided

by this chapter in cases of voting by assisted voters or in cases of

children under the age of sixteen accompanying their voting parents or

guardians.

3. No voter shall remain within a privacy booth or at a ballot scanner

longer than a reasonable amount of time and if he or she shall refuse to

leave after the lapse of such time, he or she shall be removed by the

inspectors.

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