2016 New York Laws
ELN - Election
Article 7 - ELECTION BALLOT
Title 1 - (7-100 - 7-130) FORM OF BALLOTS
7-120 - Ballots; emergency use, to be furnished.

  7-120.  Ballots;  emergency  use, to be furnished. 1. If any voting
  machine for use in any election shall become  out  of  order  during  an
  election   it  shall,  if  possible,  be  repaired  or  another  machine
  substituted  as  promptly  as  possible.    In  case  such   repair   or
  substitution  cannot be made, emergency ballots, printed or written, and
  of any suitable form, may be used for the taking of votes.
2. If the official ballots for  an  election  district  shall  not  be
  delivered within the time necessary to open the polls, or shall be lost,
  destroyed  or  stolen,  or  if  the  supply of official ballots shall be
  exhausted before the polls are closed, the board of elections, or at its
  direction, the town or city clerk, or the election  inspectors  of  such
  district,  shall  cause  emergency  ballots  to  be prepared, printed or
  written, as nearly in the form of the official ballots  as  practicable.
  The  inspectors shall use the ballots so substituted in the same manner,
  as near as may be, as the official ballots.
3. It shall be the  duty  of  each  board  of  elections  to  cause  a
  sufficient  number  of  emergency  ballots  to be placed at each polling
  place in which voting machines are used to be employed in the event  the
  voting  machines  break down.   At any time during the hour succeeding a
  breakdown, the inspectors of election may use  such  emergency  ballots,
  and  if  such breakdown lasts more than one hour, such emergency ballots
  must be used. The sample ballots may be used for this purpose in full or
  reduced size.