N.Y. Election Law § 9-200: Canvass of primary returns by board of elections; notices to delegates; certificates

§ 9-200. Canvass of primary returns by board of elections; notices to

delegates; certificates. 1. The board of elections shall canvass the

returns of primary elections filed with it. It shall canvass first the

votes of the delegates and alternates to judicial district conventions

and complete such canvass at the earliest time possible. It shall

complete the canvass otherwise within thirteen days from the day upon

which the primary election is held. Upon the completion of the canvass

the board shall make and file in its office tabulated statements, signed

by the members of such board or a majority thereof, of the number of

votes cast for all the candidates for nomination to each public office

or for election to each party position, and the number of votes cast for

each such candidate. The candidate receiving the highest number of votes

for nomination for a public office or for election to a party position

voted for wholly within the political unit for which such board is

acting, shall be the nominee of his party for such office or elected to

such party position and the board, if requested by a candidate elected

to a party position, shall furnish to him a certificate of election.

2. The board forthwith upon the completion of the canvass for members

of a state committee and delegates and alternates to a national, state

or judicial district convention, shall transmit to the state board of

elections a certificate stating the name and residence of each member of

a state committee and delegate and alternate elected from a district

wholly within the jurisdiction of such board, except that, in respect to

a judicial district convention in the first, second, eleventh, twelfth

and thirteenth judicial districts, the board of elections, instead of

transmitting such certificate, shall compile the roll of the convention

and transmit it to the chairman or secretary of the committee which, by

party rules, is empowered to fix the time and place of the convention.

The board of elections shall send by mail to each delegate and alternate

elected a notice of his election. The certificate or roll of the

convention shall list the delegates and alternates elected at a primary

in the order of the votes received by each delegate or alternate, with

the delegate or alternate receiving the highest number of votes listed

first. Tie votes shall be indicated in a manner prescribed by the state

board of elections. If there shall have been no contested election for

alternates, the names of the alternates shall appear on the certificate

or roll in the order in which their names appeared on the petition which

designated them.

3. The board forthwith, upon the completion of the canvass, shall file

with the state board of elections a certified copy of its tabulated

statement of the votes cast for each nomination or party position in a

district extending beyond the political unit for which the board is

acting.

4. The state board of elections, upon the request of the chairman of

the state committee of any political party, shall furnish to him a list

of the duly elected members of the state committee of such party.

5. There shall be included in the official compilation of the canvass

of the returns, the names of the persons who shall have been nominated

for public office or elected to party position without balloting, and in

each such case the word "uncontested" shall be placed in such

compilation wherever the vote cast for such a candidate is required to

be stated.