2006 New York Code - Bi-partisan registration and election boards.

 
    §  8.  All  laws  creating, regulating or affecting boards or officers
  charged with the duty of qualifying voters, or of  distributing  ballots
  to  voters,  or  of receiving, recording or counting votes at elections,
  shall secure equal representation of the two political parties which, at
  the general election next  preceding  that  for  which  such  boards  or
  officers  are  to serve, cast the highest and the next highest number of
  votes. All such boards and officers shall be  appointed  or  elected  in
  such  manner,  and  upon  the nomination of such representatives of said
  parties respectively, as the legislature may direct.  Existing  laws  on
  this  subject  shall  continue  until  the  legislature  shall otherwise
  provide. This section shall not apply to town, or village elections.