2016 New York Laws
ELN - Election
Article 7 - ELECTION BALLOT
Title 1 - (7-100 - 7-130) FORM OF BALLOTS
7-104 - Ballots; form of, voting machine.

  7-104.  Ballots;  form  of, voting machine. 1. All ballots shall be
  printed and/or displayed in a format and arrangement,  of  such  uniform
  size  and  style  as will fit the ballot frame, and shall be in as plain
  and clear a type or display as the space will  reasonably  permit.  Such
  type  or  display  on  the  ballot  shall  satisfy  all requirements and
  standards set forth pursuant to the federal Help America Vote Act.
2. The names of parties or independent bodies which contain more  than
  fifteen  letters  may,  whenever  limitations  of  space  so require, be
  printed on the ballot in an abbreviated form. In printing the  names  of
  candidates  whose full names contain more than fifteen letters, only the
  surname must be printed in full. The officer or board charged  with  the
  duty  of  preparing  the  ballots  shall  request each such candidate to
  indicate, in writing, the shortened  form  in  which,  subject  to  this
  restriction,  his  name  shall  be  printed.  If  no  such indication is
  received from such candidate within the time specified in  the  request,
  such officer or board shall make the necessary determination.
3.  (a)  The party name or other designation, and a designating letter
  and number shall be affixed to the name of each candidate, or,  in  case
  of  presidential  electors, to the names of the candidates for president
  and vice-president of such party.
(b) The titles of offices may be arranged horizontally, with the names
  of candidates for an office and the slot or device for write-in  ballots
  for  such  office  arranged vertically under the title of the office, or
  the titles of offices may be arranged  vertically,  with  the  names  of
  candidates for an office and the slot or device for write-in ballots for
  such office arranged horizontally opposite the title of the office.
(c) Each office shall occupy as many columns or rows on the machine as
  the number of candidates to be elected to that office.
4.  (a)  The  names  of  all  candidates  nominated  by  any  party or
  independent body for an office shall always appear in the row or  column
  containing  generally the names of candidates nominated by such party or
  independent body for other offices except as hereinafter provided.
(b) When the same person has been nominated for an office to be filled
  at the election by more than one party, the voting machine shall  be  so
  adjusted  that  his  or  her  name  shall  appear  in each row or column
  containing generally the names of candidates for other offices nominated
  by any such party.
(c) If  such  candidate  has  also  been  nominated  by  one  or  more
  independent  bodies,  his  or  her name shall appear only in each row or
  column containing generally the names of candidates  for  other  offices
  nominated  by  any such party and the name of each such independent body
  shall appear in one such row or column to be designated by the candidate
  in a writing filed with the officer or board charged with  the  duty  of
  providing  ballots,  or  if  such person shall fail to so designate, the
  names of such independent bodies shall appear in such row or  column  as
  such officer or board shall determine.
(d)  If  any person shall be nominated for any office by one party and
  two or more independent bodies his or  her  name  shall  appear  on  the
  voting machine twice; once in the row or column containing generally the
  names  of candidates for other offices nominated by such party, and once
  in the row or  column  containing  generally  the  names  of  candidates
  nominated by the independent body designated by such person in a writing
  filed  with  the  officer  or  board  charged with the duty of providing
  ballots and in connection with the name of such person in  such  row  or
  column  shall appear the name of each independent body nominating him or
  her or, if such person shall fail to so  designate,  the  name  of  such
  candidate  and the names of such independent bodies shall appear in such
  row or column as such officer or board shall determine.

(e) If any person is nominated for any office only by  more  than  one
  independent  bodies,  his  or  her  name  shall appear but once upon the
  machine in one such row or column to be designated by the candidate in a
  writing filed with the  officer  or  board  charged  with  the  duty  of
  providing  ballots,  or  if the candidate shall fail to so designate, in
  the place designated by the officer or board charged with  the  duty  of
  providing  ballots,  and  in connection with his or her name there shall
  appear the name of each independent body nominating  him  or  her,  but,
  where  the  capacity of the machine will permit, the name of such person
  shall not appear or be placed in a column or on a horizontal  line  with
  the names of persons nominated by a party for other offices.
5. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision four of this section,
  the  name  of  a  person who is nominated for the office of governor, or
  state senator, or member of assembly, shall appear on the ballot as many
  times as there are parties or independent bodies nominating him or  her,
  and  there  shall  be  a  separate voting and registering device at each
  place in which such name shall appear.
6. If any type of machine used in any  county  or  city  contains  any
  feature,  the  use  of  which  is neither required nor prohibited by the
  provisions of this chapter, the board of elections may,  by  resolution,
  require  that one or more of such features shall be used in such county.
  Thereafter all machines of such type used in such county or  city  shall
  be  operated in conformity with any such resolution. Any such resolution
  may thereafter be rescinded by such board and after being  so  rescinded
  may  be  re-adopted.  Once  re-adopted by any board of elections, such a
  resolution may not be rescinded again by such board.
7. The ballot shall have printed upon it in black ink for  each  party
  or  independent  row,  at the head of the column or the beginning of the
  row containing the names of candidates, the image of a closed fist  with
  index  finger  extended pointing to the party or independent row. In the
  same space, in black letters as large as the space will permit, shall be
  printed the name of the party or independent body and at  the  right  of
  the  fist  and  below the index finger shall be printed in black ink the
  emblem and the designating letters of the row or column.
8. With  respect  to  candidates  for  the  offices  of  governor  and
  lieutenant  governor  of  a  party or independent body, ballots shall be
  printed so that the names of such  candidates  for  both  offices  shall
  appear  in  the  same  row or column, with the name of the candidate for
  governor appearing first and the ballot shall be so adjusted  that  both
  offices  are  voted  for  jointly and have but one designating letter or
  number.