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of each district shall also forthwith at the close of each day of registration file with or mail to the state superintendent of elections a certificate showing the total number of voters registered therein in the respective election districts..

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Derivation: Election Law, § 35, subd. 3, as amended by L. 1899, ch. 630, § 9. Amended by L. 1911, ch. 649; L. 1915, ch. 678, in effect May 22, 1915. Forms. As to forms of certificates of total number of registered voters, see Forms (part 12, post).

§ 182. Delivery of blank books for registration; certificates and instructions.

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The secretary of state shall purchase whenever he deems it desirable for the best interests of the state, a suitable number of blank books for registers of voters, with blank certificates and brief instructions for registering the names of voters therein, in the forms respectively provided in sections one hundred and fiftyfour and one hundred and fifty-five of this chapter, at least four of such books for each board of inspectors in the state, and such number of extra copies thereof as in his judgment may be necessary for each county or city to replace lost or damaged registers before delivery to the inspectors. Such register of voters shall have the leaves thereof indexed with the letters of the alphabet, beginning with the letter "A" for the first leaf, and so on. least twenty days prior to the first day of registration for a general election in each year, the secretary of state shall transmit a sufficient number of such registers, certificates and instructions to the board of elections of each county, and to the board of elections of the city of New York located in the borough of Manhattan, and to the chief clerk of the branch office of the board of elections in each other borough within the city of New York, for the use of each board of inspectors within such counties and boroughs, respectively. The board of elections of each county, outside the city of New York, shall deliver such books to the town clerks of each town and to the city clerk of each city in the county, by mail or otherwise, at least five days prior to the first day of registration, and such town clerks and city clerks, and the said board of elections and chief clerks of branch offices of the board of elections in the city of New York, shall deliver such books to the inspectors of said towns, cities and boroughs, respectively, before the hour set for registering the names of voters on the first day of registration. On each day of registration the board of elections of the city of New York and of each county shall furnish to each board of inspectors in each such county or city, respectively, the blanks for the list of voters provided for in section one hundred and fifty

Seven of this article. Such blanks shall be distributed in time and manner as above provided for the distribution for registers.

Derivation: Election Law, § 36, subd. 1, as amended by L. 1897, ch. 379, § 10; L. 1901, ch. 95, § 11; L. 1905, ch. 643, § 9. Amended by L. 1916, ch. 537, in effect May 15, 1916. Certificate of independent nomination of ward officers.

The provision of

this section requiring one hundred electors to join in making a certificate for the independent nomination of ward officers in a city is not so unreasonable as to justify the court in declaring it unconstitutional. Matter of Independent Certificate (Alderman of Cohoes) (1912), 78 Misc. 87.

§ 182-a. Special instructions to voters to be prepared for the year nineteen hundred and fourteen.

The secretary of state shall prepare and cause to be printed and furnished to the various boards of elections, in time and manner as provided in section one hundred and eighty-two for other supplies, printed instructions to voters, in brief and concise form, explaining the difference between the form of ballot used at former general elections and the form of ballot provided for in section three hundred and thirty-one of this chapter as amended by chapter eight hundred and twenty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen, and explaining the requirements of marking the latter ballot so that the voter may effectually vote for the candidates for all offices to be filled. The instructions provided for in this section shall only be prepared and supplied prior to the first day of registration in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen. The various boards of elections shall supply the election officers in each election district within the jurisdiction of any such board where personal registration is required, before the opening of registration on the first day of registration, with a sufficient number of copies of such printed instructions to supply each voter with one copy. The delivery of such instructions shall be made through town and city clerks and otherwise as provided in section one hundred and eighty-two for the delivery of other supplies.

Added by L. 1914, ch. 243, in effect Apr. 8, 1914.

§ 183. Delivery of previous registers and poll books to inspectors. Each town clerk with whom the register of the last preceding general election in any election district, elsewhere than in a city or wholly within a village having five thousand inhabitants or more, shall have been filed, shall cause such register and one of the poll books to be delivered to the board of inspectors of such district at the opening of its first meeting for the registration for any election. If a new election district shall have been formed in a town since such general election, the clerk of such town shall, before the first

meeting for registration thereafter in such new election district, make a certified copy of each register for such general election of each election district out of which such new district shall have been formed, and shall cause such certified copy to be delivered to the board of inspectors of such new election district at the opening of such meeting for registration. Such board, at such meeting, shall place upon the register of voters all persons whose names are upon such copies who are qualified to vote in such election district at the election for which such meeting is held, except the names of persons who are required to personally appear for registration.

If a new election district shall have been formed in a city since such general election, the clerk or board with whom the register of voters for such last preceding general election shall have been filed shall, before the meeting of the inspectors of election of such new district for registration for any other election, make a certified copy of each register of voters for such last preceding general election of each election district out of which such new election district is formed, and the inspectors of such new election district shall, at such meeting for registration for such election, place upon the register of voters the names of all persons upon such copies who are qualified to vote in such election district at the election for which such meeting is held.

Derivation: Election Law, § 36, subd. 2.

§ 184. Penalties..

Any applicant for registration, inspector or other person who shall incorporate or cause to be incorporated any false statement in any challenge affidavit shall be deemed guilty of perjury.

Except as provided in this article any person who shall wilfully suppress, alter, destroy or mutilate any signed challenge affidavit or official copy thereof shall be deemed guilty of a felony.

Any person knowingly taking a false oath before the board of inspectors shall upon conviction thereof be punished as for wilful and corrupt perjury.

Any person who shall alter, mutilate, destroy or remove from the place of registration the public copy of registration shall be guilty of a felony, and shall be punished upon conviction thereof by imprisonment in a state prison for not less than two nor more than five years, unless otherwise provided by law.

Any person who signs and mails or delivers to the custodian of primary records an enrollment blank as provided in this chapter, which shall be false in any respect or with intent to mislead, or any person who induces or attempts to induce any person so to do, is guilty of a misdemeanor. The fact that such statement is untrue shall be prima facie proof that it is false and intended to mislead.

Any person who shall make, sign, file or cause to be filed, certify or attest any false application for registration as required by sections one hundred and fifty-eight and one hundred and fifty-nine of this chapter, or any person who shall alter, mutilate, destroy or remove any such application from the place of registration, shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished upon conviction thereof by imprisonment in a state prison for not less than two years nor more than five years, unless otherwise provided by law.

Derivation: Election Law, § 34, pt. of subd. 6, as amended by L. 1899, th. 630, § 8; L. 1901, ch. 544, § 1; also § 34, subd. 9; also § 35, pt. of subd. 2, as amended by L. 1897, ch. 379, § 9; L. 1899, ch. 630, § 10; L. 1901, ch. 95, $10; L 1905, ch. 643, § 8.

Amended by L. 1913, chs. 587 and 820, in effect Dec. 17, 1913.

ARTICLE 7.

BOARDS OF ELECTIONS.

Section 190. Boards of elections established.

191. Appointment, term and qualifications of commissioners of elections.

192. Organization of board; rules and reports.

193. Board of elections in the city of New York.

194. Recommendations for appointment of commissioners in the city of New York.

195. Filling vacancies in board.

196. Bi-partisan character of board.

197. Appointment of employees.

198. General office and branches.

199. Duty of police to aid board of elections.

200. Expenses of board of elections.

201. Disposition of registers and unused ballots.

202. Custodian of primary records.

203. Official seal.

204. Filing statement of canvas, tally sheets and poll-books.
205. Notices.

206. Transfer of records; devolution of powers.

207. Office hours, rules and regulations of board of elections.

208. All records to be public; records of transactions of the board of elections.

$ 190. Boards of elections established.

There shall be a board of elections in every city of the first class in this state which does, or shall contain within its boundaries more than one county, to consist of four persons. There shall be a board of elections in each of the other counties of the state, but in counties having a population of less than one hundred and twenty thousand inhabitants such board shall consist of two persons. In other counties of the state such board shall consist of two or four members as the board of supervisors of the county may by resolution determine. In every such other county where four commissioners of election have been appointed and the number of said commissioners is reduced to two, the board of supervisors shall within sixty days after this amendment takes effect reduce the number of commissioners to two, by designating the two who are to continue; and from the time of such designation the offices of the others shall be deemed abolished. Except in the city of New York the salaries of such commisjoners and their expenditures for clerk hire shall be fixed by the board of supervisors of each county, but shall not exceed the following amounts: In each county having a population of less than ninety thousand and which does not contain within its boundaries at least three cities of the third class the salary of a commissioner shall not exceed one thousand dollars, and

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