2017 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 2 - School District Organization
Article 53 - School Elections in City School Districts of Cities With Less Than One Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Inhabitants
2609 - Conduct of Election; Challenges.

 2609. Conduct  of  election;  challenges. 1. Such elections shall be
  conducted, so far as may be, in accordance with the  provisions  of  the
  election  law,  relative  to  general  elections,  except  as  otherwise
  provided herein.  Ballot  boxes  shall  be  provided  by  the  board  of
  education for each school election district, at least one to contain the
  ballots  voted  and  at  least  one  other for the rejected or defective
  ballots.
2. All persons whose names appear upon the register prepared for  such
  election  as  residing  in  such election district shall be permitted to
  vote and shall be given ballots for such purpose.
Where the general election registers have  been  turned  over  to  the
  board  of education, the board may require that the registers be used on
  election day for the purpose of verifying the signature of  each  voter.
  Where  the  board of elections, or other authority having lawful custody
  of the register or registers, has elected to furnish certified  registry
  lists  in  place  of  the original registers, the board of education may
  require that any voter offer evidence to prove his identity before being
  permitted to vote. In such  case,  not  less  than  ten  days  prior  to
  election day, the board shall establish reasonable rules and regulations
  governing the evidence necessary to prove the identity of each voter.
3. Booths shall be provided and voters shall be required to enter such
  booths  for  the  purpose  of  marking  their  ballots. The ballots when
  presented to the inspector shall be folded so as to conceal the names of
  the candidates for whom the voter has voted.
4. All voters entitled to vote who are in the place where the election
  is held at or before the time of closing the polls shall be  allowed  to
  vote.  The  inspectors  shall  keep a poll list, containing the name and
  address of each qualified elector who votes at  such  election  for  the
  candidates or propositions voted for thereat.
4-a. (a) At each such election there shall be conspicuously placed, by
  the  inspectors  of  election,  distance  markers  at  a distance of one
  hundred feet  from  the  polling  place.  Such  distance  markers  shall
  indicate  the prohibition contained in paragraph (b) of this subdivision
  and shall be so placed at least one-half hour before the opening of  the
  polls and shall remain until the polls are closed.
(b) Where such markers are so placed and the polls are open, no person
  shall  do  any  electioneering  within  the polling place, or within one
  hundred feet therefrom in any public street, or within such distance  in
  any  place in a public manner and no banner, poster or placard on behalf
  of or in opposition to any candidate or issue to be voted upon shall  be
  allowed  in  or  upon  the  polling  place  or  within  one hundred feet
  therefrom during the election. For the purposes of this subdivision, the
  one hundred foot distance shall be deemed to include a one hundred  foot
  radial  measured  from  the  entrances,  designated by the inspectors of
  election, to a building where such election is being held. This  section
  shall  not  be  deemed  to  prohibit  the  board of trustees or board of
  education from displaying within any polling place a copy or  copies  of
  any proposition to be voted upon.
(c)  Any  person who wilfully violates the provisions of paragraph (b)
  of this subdivision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
5. Any qualified voter of a city school  district  may  challenge  the
  right  of  a  person  to vote at the time when he requests a ballot. All
  persons named upon the applicable register  as  having  been  challenged
  prior  to  the  day of the election shall also be challenged before they
  are given ballots to vote. The chairman of the board of inspectors shall
  administer to each person  so  challenged  the  following  oath:  "I  do
  solemnly  swear  (or  affirm)  that I am a citizen of the United States;
  that I am of the age of eighteen years or more;  that  I  have  been  an

  inhabitant  of the State for the past year, a resident of the county for
  the past four months and for the thirty days past an actual resident  of
  this  city  school  district  and am therefore qualified to vote at this
  election."  If  the  person challenged so swears or affirms, he shall be
  permitted to vote at such election; but if he shall refuse to  so  swear
  or affirm, he shall not be given a ballot or be permitted to vote.
6.  A person who wilfully swears or affirms falsely as to his right to
  vote at such election after his right to vote  has  been  challenged  is
  guilty  of perjury and may be punished in the manner provided by law for
  the punishment of such crime. A person who is not qualified to  vote  at
  such  election who shall vote thereat, although not challenged, shall be
  guilty of  a  misdemeanor,  punishable  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than
  twenty-five  dollars,  or by imprisonment for not less than thirty days,
  or by both such fine and imprisonment.