N.Y. Election Law § 9-114: Counting ballots; objections to

§ 9-114. Counting ballots; objections to. 1. If objection be made to

the counting of any ballot or as to any section of any such ballot, the

board of inspectors shall forthwith and before canvassing any other

ballot or section thereof, rule upon the objection. If the objection be

continued after this ruling, the chair or an inspector under the

scrutiny of an inspector of the opposite party shall write in ink upon

the back of the ballot a memorandum of the ruling and objection. The

memorandum of the ruling shall be in the words "Counted void", or

"Counted blank", or "Counted for (naming the candidate or candidates or

the presidential ticket)", or, in the case of a ballot proposal "Counted

for Proposal No.......," or "Counted against Proposal No........", as

the case may be. The memorandum of the objection shall be in the words

"Objected to", followed by a brief statement of the nature of the

objection, the name and address of the challenger and the signature of

the chair or inspector.

2. Any ballot to which objection is not taken but which is wholly

blank or is void shall be indorsed in ink by the chair of the board of

inspectors or an inspector under the scrutiny of an inspector of the

opposite party with the words "Wholly blank" or "Void", as the case may

be, and signed by the chair or inspector.

3. When all the ballots of any one kind shall have been canvassed, the

inspectors shall ascertain the total number of all such ballots and the

number of ballots to which any objection was taken and shall enter such

numbers in the place provided therefor in the inspectors' returns of

such canvass.