2. After the last day of registration and before election day in each year the state superintendent of elections also shall prepare for each election district in the city of New York a challenge list containing the names, alphabetically arranged, and addresses of all persons registered in such district during said last preceding period of registration whom he shall have reason to believe, from investigation or otherwise, not to be entitled to vote at said elec tion. Such challenge lists shall be delivered to the respective boards of inspectors in such city at least one-half hour before the opening of the polls of each election. It shall be the duty of the chairman of the respective boards of inspectors to challenge the vote of any person presenting himself to vote under any name on said challenge lists. Said challenge lists shall contain a column headed "remarks," and it shall be the duty of the chairmen of the respective boards of inspectors to enter in said column opposite the names on said lists whether any person applying to vote under any name on said lists who was challenged was allowed to vote and the reason for allowing him to vote. If a person applies to vote under any name on said challenge lists who is challenged and does not vote, then there shall be entered opposite such name in the aforesaid column headed "remarks" the words "challenged but did not vote." If no person applies to vote under any name on said challenge lists then there shall be noted opposite each such name in the aforesaid column headed "remarks" the words "no application." At the close of the polls said challenge lists shall be signed and certified as true by each member of such board of inspectors and returned to the state superintendent of elections in a sealed envelope provided therefor by the said state superintendent.

3. The state superintendent of elections shall prepare duplicates of all challenge lists provided for in this section and he shall keep said duplicate challenge lists on file in his office from the time of their preparation until the close of the third general election following the preparation of said challenge lists. The aforesaid original challenge lists shall also be kept on file for two years after the general election following their preparation.

Derivation: L. 1905, ch. 689, § 1, amending L. 1898, ch. 676, § 11.
Amended by L. 1911, ch. 649; L. 1915, ch. 678, in effect May 22, 1915.

§ 487. Salaries and expenses.

The annual salary of the state superintendent of elections shall be five thousand dollars; of the chief deputy, four thousand dollars; of the secretary, two thousand dollars; of one chief stenographer, fifteen hundred dollars; of not more than thirteen of the deputies, of whom eight may be assigned to take charge of the branch offices, fifteen hundred dollars each; of not more than seventy of the deputies, twelve hundred dollars each; payable semi-monthly. All other deputies shall receive five dollars for each day's service, not exceeding forty days for any one election, to be paid on the certificate of the superintendent or chief deputy, which forty days shall be within a period beginning one week before the first day of registration and ending December thirty-first of such year. The salaries of the clerks and other stenographers shall be fixed by the said superintendent. All salaries and other compensation provided by this section shall be paid by the state treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller.

The state superintendent may provide one main office, which shall be located in the city of Albany, and branch offices in his discretion, not to exceed eight in number, one of which shall be located in the city of New York and furnish them with needed furniture, stationery and supplies, and expend for such purpose and for disbursements and expenses in carrying out the provisions of this article, not exceeding forty thousand dollars each year, to be paid by the state treasurer on the audit and warrant of the comptroller. Derivation: L. 1905, ch. 689, § 1, amending L. 1898, ch. 676, § 12.

Amended by L. 1911, ch. 649; L. 1915, ch. 678; L. 1917, ch. 234, in effect July 1, 1917.

§ 488. Report to governor.

The state superintendent of elections shall annually in the month of December file with the governor a report showing the names and residences of the persons appointed by him as deputies during the year, the number of days each has served, the com

pensation certified for each, the number of arrests made for violation of this chapter or the penal law, the names of the persons arrested, the nature of the offense charged, the disposition thereof, and any other facts in relation to the administration of his office which the state superintendent may deem proper or which may be required by the governor.

Derivation: L. 1905, ch. 689, § 1, amending L. 1898, ch. 676, § 13.
Amended by L. 1911, ch. 649; L. 1915, ch. 678, in effect May 22, 1915.

§ 489. Authority of state superintendent of elections.

The authority, powers and jurisdiction of the state superintendent of elections with respect to general elections, as defined by the provisions of this article, are hereby extended to primary elections, so far as such provisions may be applicable.

Derivation: Added by L. 1911, ch. 891, § 63; amended by L. 1915, ch. 678, in effect May 22, 1915.

L. 1915, ch. 678, § 44.

The terms of office of the present state superintendents of elections shall expire upon the appointment and qualification of a single superintendent of elections under the provisions of section four hundred and seventy-one of the election law as amended by this act. Upon the appointment and qualification of such superintendent of elections, he shall succeed to the powers and duties of such superintendents of elections except as modified by this act and shall have the charge, custody and control of the offices, property, books, records, papers and documents pertaining to the powers and duties of such superintendents. After this act takes effect and until the appointment and qualification of such superintendent of elections, the present superintendents of elections shall have the powers and duties of the superintendent of elections as prescribed by, the election law as amended by this act. This act shall not affect any matter pending under the election law at the time it takes effect or at the time of the appointment of a single superintendent of elections under section four hundred and seventy-one of

such law as amended by this act, which pertain to the powers and duties of the present superintendents of elections, nor affect the running of time with respect to any proceeding provided for in the election law. Any such pending matter pertaining to the functions of the state superintendents of elections shall be continued and disposed of by the state superintendent of elections.

In effect May 22, 1915.

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ARTICLE 15.

SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' ELECTIONS.

Section 500. Special polls in time of war.

501. General register of absent voters.

502. Poll books and oaths.

503. Official war ballots.

504. Official envelopes for war ballots.

505. Delivery of official war ballots, poll, books and envelopes.

506. Lists of nominations.

507. Polls of election.

508. Opening of the polls.

509. Organization of the polls.
510. Conduct of elections.

511. Count of the votes.

512. Returns not to be rejected because of informality of election.
513. Disposition of envelopes and ballots.

514. Canvass by inspectors of election.

515. Canvass by county board.

516. Canvass by state board.

517. Returns or statements not made and filed prior to certain dates in any year not to be canvassed.

518. Provisions of penal law relating to crimes against the elective franchise to apply.

519. Filling vacancies in the office of inspector of elections.

520. Elections may be contested.

521. General provisions concerning elections to apply.

522. Copies of this article to be published and distributed.

§ 500. Special polls in time of war.

Whenever, in time of war, any qualified voter of this state shall be in the actual military service of this state or of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, and by reason thereof absent from his election district, such absent voter shall be entitled to vote as fully as if he were present at his place of residence in the manner hereinafter provided.

Derivation: L. 1898, ch. 674, § 1.

§ 501. General register of absent voters.

It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to prepare and make a general register in which shall be entered in alphabetical order the names of the voters of this state absent from their respective election districts in time of war in the actual military service of this state or of the United States in the army or navy thereof. Such general register shall contain the name and residence of each such absent voter by street and number, if any, and the name of the county and city or town in which he resides, so far as the secretary of state can ascertain the same. It shall also contain the name or number or other desig nation of the regiment, company, troop, vessel or other command to which each such absent voter is attached or assigned, and the location of such command at the time of such entry, so far as he can ascertain the same.

In order to secure the necessary information to make and complete such general register, it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to prepare proper blanks and forward the same to the commanding officer of each command in which there are any such absent voters of this