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New York Statutes § 9-120 Returns of canvass; generally

⤴ Up to Title 1: Canvass at Polling Places

Statute Text

1. Upon completing the canvass, the inspectors shall prepare their returns of the canvass [ [They shall use therefor the] on a printed form supplied to them [and, at an election which was not conducted on a voting machine which produces a printed or photographic record, they shall carefully insert thereon, in ink, the appropriate names, words and figures according to the directions printed in the form provided by this chapter] by the board of elections . The [printed or photographic record produced by the voting machine] results tape(s) and the tally [sheets] sheet(s) for any office, party position or ballot proposal, if separate from [the statement of return] such form , shall be securely attached by the [chairman] chair or an inspector under the scrutiny of an inspector of the opposite party to such [statement of] form returns and it shall not be necessary to transcribe information provided by such results tapes onto such form . [A printed or photographic record] Results tape(s) or a tally [sheet] sheet(s) , when so annexed, or forming part of the same paper as the return, shall be treated as part of the return. The inspectors, and clerks, if any, shall subscribe in ink the certificate at the end of the set of returns. Each set of returns shall be securely sealed in an envelope properly endorsed on the outside by the inspectors. At an election at which voting machines are not used, the ballot boxes, if any, supplied by the board of elections, may when securely locked be used instead of sealed envelopes.
2. The form for the return or returns of the canvass shall be printed in a [form] format approved by the state board of elections. The form of such return of canvass shall provide for the total number of votes for each candidate in each contest, or upon each ballot proposal, including the total number of unscanned voted ballots canvassed in accordance with section 9-110 of this title.
3. In the event that there is more than one election district at a polling place, the board of elections may authorize the use of one or more returns of canvass that consolidate the report of the number of votes for each candidate, or upon each ballot proposal, for more than one election district or more than one ballot scanner, provided that such consolidated returns of canvass have attached to them the results tape(s) produced by the ballot scanner(s) that identify the number of votes for each candidate, or upon each ballot proposal, within each such election district and each such ballot scanner.

History

Amended by New York Laws 2013 , ch. 334 , Sec. 10 , eff. 8/21/2013 .

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