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N.Y. Election Law § 8-510: Challenge report; completion of and procedure after

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  1. Election Law
  2. Article 8. Conduct of Elections
  3. Title 5. Challenging Voters

§ 8-510. Challenge report; completion of and procedure after. 1.

Immediately after the close of the polls the board of inspectors of

election shall verify the entries which it has made on the challenge

report or in the spaces provided in the computer generated registration

list by comparing such entries with the information appearing on the

registration poll records of the affected voters or the information

appearing in the spaces provided in the computer generated registration

list. If it has made no entries in section two, three or four of such

report it shall write across or note in such section the words "No

challenges", "No assistance" or "None", as the case may be, as directed

in this chapter.

2. After completing such report the inspectors shall sign a

certificate in the spaces provided by the county board of elections for

such report.

3. The inspectors shall place such completed report, and each court

order, if any, directing that a person be permitted to vote, in the

secure container provided by the county board of elections for such

ledger of registration records or computer generated registration lists

and then shall close and seal each ledger of registration records or

computer generated registration lists, lock such ledger in the carrying

case furnished for that purpose and enclose the keys in a sealed package

or seal such list in the envelope provided for that purpose.

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