2019 New York Laws
ELN - Election
Article 4 - Proceedings Preliminary to Registration, Enrollment and Elections
4-117 - Check of Registrants and Information Notice by Mail.

§  4-117.  Check of registrants and information notice by mail. 1. The
  board of elections, not less than sixty-five days nor more than  seventy
  days  before  the  primary  election in each year, shall send by mail on
  which is endorsed  such  language  designated  by  the  state  board  of
  elections  to  ensure  postal  authorities  do not forward such mail but
  return it to the board of elections with forwarding information, when it
  cannot be delivered as addressed and which contains a request  that  any
  such  mail  received  for persons not residing at the address be dropped
  back in the mail, a communication, in a form approved by the state board
  of elections, to every registered voter who has been registered  without
  a  change  of  address since the beginning of such year, except that the
  board of elections shall not be required to send such communications  to
  voters  in  inactive status. The communication shall notify the voter of
  the days and hours of the ensuing primary  and  general  elections,  the
  place  where  he or she appears by his or her registration records to be
  entitled to vote, the fact that voters who have moved or will have moved
  from the address where they were last registered must either notify  the
  board  of elections of his or her new address or vote by paper ballot at
  the polling place for his or her new address even if such voter has  not
  re-registered,  or  otherwise  notified  the  board  of elections of the
  change of address. If the primary will not be held on the first  Tuesday
  after  the second Monday in September, the communication shall contain a
  conspicuous notice in all capital letters and bold  font  notifying  the
  voter  of the primary date. If the location of the polling place for the
  voter's election  district  has  been  moved,  the  communication  shall
  contain  the following legend in bold type: "YOUR POLLING PLACE HAS BEEN
  CHANGED. YOU  NOW  VOTE  AT..........".  The  communication  shall  also
  indicate  whether the polling place is accessible to physically disabled
  voters, that a voter who will be out of the city or county on the day of
  the primary or general election or a voter  who  is  ill  or  physically
  disabled may obtain an absentee ballot, that a physically disabled voter
  whose  polling place is not accessible may request that his registration
  record be moved to an election district which has a polling place  which
  is  accessible,  the  phone  number  to  call for applications to move a
  registration record or  for  absentee  ballot  applications,  the  phone
  number  to call for the location of registration and polling places, the
  phone number to call to indicate that the voter is willing to  serve  on
  election  day  as  an  election inspector, poll clerk, interpreter or in
  other capacities, the phone number to call to obtain an application  for
  registration   by  mail,  and  such  other  information  concerning  the
  elections or registration as the board may include. In lieu  of  sending
  such communication to every registered voter, the board of elections may
  send  a  single  communication  to  a household containing more than one
  registered voter, provided that the names of all such voters  appear  as
  part of the address on such communication.
1-a.  The  notice  required  by  subdivision one of this section shall
  include the dates, hours and locations of early voting for  the  general
  and  primary  election. The board of elections may alternatively satisfy
  the notice requirement of this subdivision by providing  in  the  notice
  instructions to obtain the required early voting information by means of
  a website and phone number of the board of elections.
2.  Whenever  a  ballot  proposal is to be submitted to the people for
  approval at any election, the board  of  elections  may  send  to  every
  registered voter, by the same mail containing the communication required
  by this section, a copy of the abstract of such ballot proposal.
3.  Each  year,  in  the month of December, the commissioners of every
  local board of elections shall file with the state board  of  elections,
  on  a  form  provided  therefor by such state board, a statement setting

  forth the approximate number of communications mailed  pursuant  to  the
  requirements  of  this  section  and  the  approximate  number  of  such
  communications returned by the post  office.  Such  statement  shall  be
  sworn or subscribed to and bear a form notice that false statements made
  therein  are  punishable  as  a  class A misdemeanor pursuant to section
  210.45 of the penal law. The failure of a local board  of  elections  to
  file  such  a certificate in any year, within the time prescribed, shall
  create a presumption that such board of  elections  did  not  mail  such
  communications in such year. Not later than January thirty-first of each
  year,  the  state  board  of elections shall publish a chart listing, by
  county, the numbers contained in the certificates required to  be  filed
  by  each  local  board  of  elections  in  December of the previous year
  pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision.