2010 New York Code
ELN - Election
Article 17 - (17-100 - 17-170) VIOLATIONS OF THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE
17-150 - Duress and intimidation of voters.

§ 17-150. Duress and intimidation of voters. Any person or corporation
  who directly or indirectly:
    1.  Uses  or  threatens  to  use  any force, violence or restraint, or
  inflicts or threatens to inflict any injury, damage, harm or loss, or in
  any other manner practices intimidation upon or against  any  person  in
  order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting for
  or  against  any  particular  person  or  for or against any proposition
  submitted to voters at such election, or to place or cause to be  placed
  or refrain from placing or causing to be placed his name upon a registry
  of  voters,  or on account of such person having voted or refrained from
  voting at such election, or having voted or refrained from voting for or
  against any  particular  person  or  persons,  or  for  or  against  any
  proposition  submitted  to voters at such election, or having registered
  or refrained from registering as a voter; or,
    2. By abduction, duress  or  any  forcible  or  fraudulent  device  or
  contrivance  whatever impedes, prevents or otherwise interferes with the
  free exercise of the  elective  franchise  by  any  voter,  or  compels,
  induces  or  prevails  upon any voter to give or refrain from giving his
  vote for or against any particular person at any election; or,
    3. Being an employer pays his employess the salary  or  wages  due  in
  "pay  envelopes,"  in  which  there  is  enclosed or upon which there is
  written or  printed  political  motto,  device  or  argument  containing
  threats,  express  or  implied,  intended or calculated to influence the
  political opinions or actions of such employees, or within  ninety  days
  of a general election puts or otherwise exhibits in the establishment or
  place  where his employees are engaged in labor, any handbill or placard
  containing any threat, notice or information,  that  if  any  particular
  ticket  or  candidate  is  elected  or  defeated,  work  in his place or
  establishment will cease, in whole or in part, his establishment will be
  closed up, or the wages of his  employees  reduced,  or  other  threats,
  express  or  implied,  intended or calculated to influence the political
  opinions or actions of his employees, is guilty of a  misdemeanor,  and,
  if a corporation, shall in addition forfeit its charter.