2006 New York Code - Replacement Of Registration And Enrollment Records; Damaged, Unusable Or Lost.

 
    §  5-608. Replacement of registration and enrollment records; damaged,
  unusable or lost. 1. If the registration or enrollment  records  of  any
  voter  shall  be  lost,  mutilated,  defaced  or destroyed, the board of
  elections shall, except as provided in subdivision two  hereof,  require
  him  to  reregister  or  reenroll.   Such reregistration or reenrollment
  shall be deemed to have taken effect as of  the  date  of  the  original
  registration or enrollment.
    2.  If  one or both of the registration records of the voter are still
  in the possession of the board of elections and it is possible therefrom
  to duplicate the lost or damaged record, the board  of  elections  shall
  prepare  a new record containing all the information required, using the
  original serial number,  and  shall  paste  photostatic  copies  of  the
  voter's  signature  in  each space on the new record where his signature
  was placed on the original record.
    3.  When  the  spaces  for  signature  or  for  other  entries,  on  a
  registration  poll  record are filled so as to render a record no longer
  usable, the board of elections shall prepare a second poll  record.  All
  pertinent  information  shall be copied from the original poll record on
  to the second poll record. The registration signature  on  the  original
  poll record shall be photostated and pasted on the back in the space for
  the  registration signature on the second poll record.  Within the space
  reserved for remarks shall  be  imprinted  "Record  Continued--2nd  Poll
  Record", or "3rd Poll Record", as appropriate.
    4. The active but unusable poll record shall be kept in a special file
  for  active  continued  registrations  until  such time as the next poll
  record may be cancelled, at which time  the  poll  records  are  stamped
  "cancelled" and fastened together when placed in the cancellation file.
    5. All mutilated or defaced registration records which are replaced by
  new records under the provisions of this section shall be stamped across
  the  face  with the words "Record Replaced", without obliterating any of
  the entries thereon and shall be kept on file by the board of elections.
    6. If the records of an entire election district or  a  large  segment
  thereof  are lost, mutilated, defaced or destroyed, or are determined by
  the board of elections to be  so  inaccurate  or  incomplete  as  to  be
  unusable,  such  board  may, upon due notice, require re-registration of
  all qualified voters resident within such district.  In such event,  the
  board  shall fix and determine additional days of local registration for
  such re-registration.