2006 New York Code - Canvass; Ballots; Method Of.

 
    § 9-110. Canvass; ballots; method of. The method of canvassing ballots
  other  than  ballots  upon  ballot  proposals  shall  be as follows: The
  inspectors shall unfold each ballot of the kind then to be canvassed and
  shall place all such ballots upon the table in one pile face  down.  The
  chairman  then  shall  take up each ballot in order, turn it face up and
  announce loudly and distinctly the vote registered on each  section,  in
  the order of the sections upon the ballot, or that the ballot is void or
  the  section blank, as the case may be. If more than one person is to be
  elected to the same office or party position the chairman, if the ballot
  is void or the ballot or section is wholly blank, shall announce as many
  void or blank votes as there are persons to be elected to the office  or
  party  position.  On  a  primary ballot a "section," as the term is used
  above, shall mean the space occupied by the title of an office or  party
  position, names of candidates therefor and the voting squares therewith.
  The  canvass  of each ballot must be completed before the next ballot is
  taken up except that in canvassing the ballots at a general election  in
  an  even  numbered  year the votes upon the first section of each ballot
  shall be canvassed first, and when the canvass of such section  on  each
  such ballot is completed the ballot shall be placed in a new pile.  When
  the  tallies  of  the votes on the first section of all such ballots are
  proven, and the results announced, the inspectors' returns of  the  vote
  thereon  shall be filled out. The remaining sections of each such ballot
  shall then be canvassed, the canvass of  each  ballot  to  be  completed
  before the next ballot is taken up.