In a year when a president of the United States is to be elected, a separate ballot for electors of president and vice-president shall be provided which shall be in the same form as the ballot for such officers to be voted by any other electors.

Derivation: L. 1898, ch. 674, § 4.

Former § 503, as amended by L. 1917, ch. 815, repealed; new § 503 added by L. 1918, ch. 298, in effect Apr. 20, 1918.

$504. Official envelopes for war ballots.

He shall also cause to be prepared and printed at least twice as many official envelopes as there are voters absent from their election districts, as shown by such general register. Such envelopes. shall be gummed, ready for sealing. Upon one side of such enve

lope shall be printed in substantially the following form the following:

Upon the other side of such envelope shall be printed the following oath:

"OATH OF ELECTOR.

"I do swear (or affirm) that I have been a citizen of the United States for ninety days and am now of the age of at least twentyone years, or will be on the (here insert the date of the election); that I will have been an inhabitant of the state of New York for one year next preceding this election and for the four months preceding such election a resident of the county of........, and am a qualified voter, residing at (street and number, if any) in the (city or town of) ... ; that I am in the actual military (or naval) service of the state of New York or of the United States, and at present attached to (here state the particular command to which attached); and that I have not received or offered, do not expect to receive, have not paid, offered or promised to pay, contributed, offered or promised to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing, as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding of a vote at this election, and have not made any promise to influence the giving or withholding of any such vote; and that I have not made or become directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the result of this election; and that I have not been convicted of bribery or any infamous crime, or,

if so convicted, that I have been pardoned and restored to all the rights of a citizen."

Voter MUST sign here, and inspector of elections MUST administer and attest oath.

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this .... (here insert the date),

day of

Inspector of Elections."

If at such election any proposed amendment to the constitution or other proposition or question is to be submitted to the vote of the voters of the state, the secretary of state shall furnish an equal number of ballots for questions so submitted in the form prescribed by section three hundred and thirty-two of this chapter, which shall be properly indorsed, as a war ballot.

Derivation: L. 1898, ch. 674, § 5.

Amended by L. 1918, ch. 298, in effect Apr. 20, 1918.

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

The secretary of state shall cause to be delivered to the commanding officer of every command in which ten or more voters of this state are included, absent from their respective election districts in time of war in the actual military service of this state or the United States in the army or navy thereof, a sufficient number of official war ballots of each kind and official envelopes, at least twice as many as there are such voters in such command; and two poll books for the use of such voters at each poll of each election held under the provisions of this article. Such official war ballots, poll books and envelopes shall be delivered in time for use at the election for which they are prepared, in such manner and by such means as shall in the judgment of the secretary of state be best suited to secure their safe and timely delivery for the use of the voters at the election for which they have been prepared. If the number of voters in any command be less than ten, or voters be detached by military order and absent from their command, the secretary of state shall, when practicable, mail or deliver to

such voters of that description as he may, with reasonable diligence, be able to locate, official war ballots and official envelopes. Derivation: L. 1898, ch. 674, § 6.

Amended by L. 1918, ch. 298, in effect Apr. 20, 1918.

506. Lists of nominations.

It shall be the duty of each county clerk or board with whom or which certificates of nominations to public office are filed to cause a certified list of such nominations to be forthwith forwarded by mail to the secretary of state, including the name and residence of each nominee together with the title of the office for which he is nominated and the party or other political name specified in such certificates of nomination. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state after the receipt by him of such certified lists of nominations to communicate so far as practicable, to each commanding officer of any command having therein ten or more voters of this state absent from their respective election districts in time of war, in the actual military service of this state or the United States in the army or navy thereof, the name and residence of each person named in any cerificate of nomination so certified by a county clerk or filed in the office of the secretary of state, together with the title of the office for which he is nominated and the party or other political name specified in such certificates of nominations; and upon receipt thereof each such commanding officer shall cause such information to be posted in a conspicuous place for the information of such absent voters in his command.

Derivation: L. 1898, ch. 674, § 7.

$507. Polls of election.

Polls of an election held under the provisions of this article shall be opened on the day of such election at the quarters of the captain or other commanding officer of any company, troop or other command in the military service of this state or of the United States in the army or navy thereof, if the same be composed in whole or in part of voters of this state. All qualified voters of this state in such command may vote at such poll. Officers and enlisted men, voters of this state, attached to or forming part of the command having therein less than ten such voters, or detached by military order and absent from their command, may vote at such other poll

as may be most convenient for them, or, if any such voter shall have received a ballot and envelope from the secretary of state as provided in section five hundred and five, he may take the oath provided for in section five hundred and four, upon the envelope, before his commanding officer, prepare his ballot, inclosing same in such envelope, fill out the endorsement thereon and mail such envelope or cause it too be mailed or delivered to the secretary of state, who shall include the same in the envelopes to be transmitted to the board of elections of the county in which the voter resides as provided in section five hundred and thirteen. Such board shall transmit the ballot, as provided in such section, to the board of inspectors of the election district in which the voter resides, and the same shall be canvassed, if the voter is a qualified elector.

Derivation: L. 1898, ch. 674, § 8.

Amended by L. 1918, ch. 298, in effect Apr. 20, 1918.

§ 508. Opening of the polls.

Any election held under the provisions of this article shall be held upon the day of the general or special election in this state, or on any secular day within twenty days next prior thereto, such prior day to be fixed by the commanding officer of highest rank in the territory or naval fleet, where the poll or polls for such election shall be held, by proclamation duly made, but such officer need not fix the same day for such election throughout all of the military or naval units of such territory or fleet; provided, however, that if by reason of the exigencies of war such election cannot be held in any of the polls herein provided on the day so fixed, such election may be held on the next day practicable thereafter upon like proclamation of such commanding officer of highest rank; but such election shall not be held later than the day of such general or special election. Such polls shall be opened at such hour of the day as shall be most convenient for such voters and shall remain open not less than three hours and as much longer as shall, in the opinion of the inspectors of election serving at such polls, be necessary in order to receive the votes of all voters of this state entitled to vote at such polls; but no polls shall be kept open later than sunset of the day on which such election shall be held.

The inspectors shall at the opening of such polls make public proclamation of the opening thereof and the time at which such polls shall be closed, and as near as may be, at one hour before