PART 12. ELECTION LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK LAWS OF 1909, CHAPTER 22, WITH ALL AMENDMENTS PASSED TO THE END OF THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION OF 1917. AN ACT in relation to the elections, constituting chapter seventeen of the consolidated laws. Became a law February 17, 1909, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Article CHAPTER 17 OF THE CONSOLIDATED LAws. ELECTION LAW. 1. Short title; application; definitions (§§ 1-3). 2. Enrollment of voters (§§ 4-24). 3. Party organization (§§ 35-40). 4. Designation of candidates for party nominations or for election to party positions (§§ 45-58). 4-a. Conduct of primary elections; canvass of returns (§§ 70-94). 4-b. Conventions (§§ 110-114). 5. Nominations (§§ 120-137). 6. Registration of voters (§§ 150-184). 7. Board of elections (§§ 190-208). 8. Times, places, notices, officers and expenses of elections (§§ 290 320). 9. Ballots and stationery (§§ 330-345). 10. Conduct of elections and canvass of votes (§§ 350-381). 11. Voting machines (§§ 390-421). 12. Boards of canvassers (§§ 430-444). 13. United States senators, representatives in congress and presi dential electors (§§ 449-457). 14. State superintendents of elections (§§ 471-489). 17. Laws repealed; when to take effect (§§ 570, 571). ARTICLE 1. SHORT TITLE; APPLICATION; DEFINITIONS. Section 1. Short title. 2. Application. 3. Definitions. [Schedule of sections thus amended by Laws 1911, chap. 891, § 2, in effect Nov. 15, 1911.] § 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "Election Law." Derivation: Election Law, § 1. Consolidators' general note. — - The Election Law as here consolidated includes the following formerly separate laws, as amended to January 1, 1908: Primary Election Law, L. 1899, ch. 473 (amending throughout L. 1898, ch. 179). Town Enrollment Act, L. 1902, ch. 195. Soldiers' and Sailors' Election Law, L. 1898, ch. 674. Metropolitan Elections District Law, L. 1905, ch. 689 (amending throughout L. 1898, ch. 676). Act creating a Commissioner of Elections in Erie County, L. 1904, ch. 394. Act creating a Commissioner of Elections in Westchester County, L. 1907, ch. 255. Certain provisions relating to elections in towns, villages and school districts, appearing heretofore in the Town, Village and School Laws, and closely involved in provisions of those laws more analogous to certain parts of the Constitution and the Legislative Law than to the Election Law, have been left in the Town, Village and Schools Laws where they were. The penal provisions already in the Election Law have been allowed to remain, instead of being placed in the Penal Code with the considerable body of provisions there concerning crimes against the elective franchise. But otherwise, and excepting also the constitutional provisions, all the existing statute law of a general nature relating to elections, including certain exceptions to the general scheme, which are in one sense special or local, but without which the general law would be incomplete, e. g. the special provisions for a board of elections in New York City, and for the commissioners of elections in Erie and Westchester counties, are included. ARRANGEMENT OF LAW. An effort has been made to follow the chronological order of the election process so far as a fairly close adherence to the form of the old law permitted, beginning with the primaries and enrollment in parties, continuing through registration for elections, the proceedings in preparation for and upon election day, the proceedings of the boards of canvassers, and coming finally to the |