N.Y. Election Law § 9-212: Determinations by county canvassing boards

§ 9-212. Determinations by county canvassing boards. 1. The canvassing

board shall determine each person elected by the greatest number of

votes to each county office, and each person elected by the greatest

number of votes to each city, town or village office of a city, town or

village of which it is the board of canvassers. The canvassing board

shall also determine whether any ballot proposal submitted only to the

voters of the county, or only to the voters of a city, town or village

of which it is the board of canvassers, as the case may be, has by the

greater number of votes been adopted or rejected.

2. All such determinations shall be in writing and signed by the

members of the canvassing board or a majority of them and filed and

recorded in the office of the board of elections. Except in the city of

New York and in the counties of Nassau, Orange and Westchester, the

board of elections shall cause a copy of such determinations, and of the

statements filed in its office upon which such determinations were

based, to be published once in each of the newspapers designated to

publish election notices and the official canvass. The statement of

canvass to be published, however, shall not give the vote by election

districts but shall contain only the total vote for a person, or the

total vote for and the total vote against a ballot proposal, cast within

the county, or within the portion thereof, if any, in which an office is

filled or ballot proposal is decided by the voters if the canvass of the

vote thereon devolves upon the county board of canvassers. Such totals

shall be expressed in arabic numerals.

3. The board of elections shall prepare and forthwith transmit to each

person determined by the canvassing board to have been elected a

certified statement, naming the office to which such canvassing board

has declared him elected.

4. The appropriate state or local election official shall establish a

free access system (such as a toll-free telephone number or an internet

website) that any individual who casts an affidavit ballot may access to

discover whether the vote of that individual was counted, and, if the

vote was not counted, the reason that the vote was not counted.