2019 New York Laws
ELN - Election
Article 8 - Conduct of Elections
Title 1 - Polling Places
8-100 - Elections; Dates of and Hours for Voting.

§  8-100. Elections; dates of and hours for voting. 1. * (a) A primary
election shall be held on  the  fourth  Tuesday  in  June  before  every
general  election unless otherwise changed by an act of the legislature.
Members of the state and county committees and assembly district leaders
and associate district leaders and  all  other  party  positions  to  be
elected  shall be elected at such primary and all nominations for public
office required to be made at a primary election in such year  shall  be
made  at such primary. In the year two thousand twenty in which electors
of president and vice president of the United States are to  be  elected
an additional primary election, to be known as the presidential primary,
shall  be  held  on  April  twenty-eight,  two  thousand  twenty  unless
otherwise changed by an act of  the  legislature,  for  the  purpose  of
electing delegates and alternate delegates to the national convention.
  * NB Effective until December 31, 2020
  * (a)  A  primary election shall be held on the fourth Tuesday in June
before every general election unless otherwise changed by an act of  the
legislature.  Members  of  the  state and county committees and assembly
district leaders and associate district  leaders  and  all  other  party
positions  to  be  elected  shall  be  elected  at  such primary and all
nominations for public office required to be made at a primary  election
in  such  year  shall  be  made  at  such primary. In each year in which
electors of president and vice president of the United States are to  be
elected  an  additional  primary  election,  to  be  known as the spring
primary, shall be held on the first Tuesday in February unless otherwise
changed by an act of  the  legislature,  for  the  purpose  of  electing
delegates to the national convention.
  * NB Effective December 31, 2020
  (b) In the event a run-off primary election is required in the city of
New  York,  it  shall  be held on the fourth Tuesday next succeeding the
date on which the initial primary election was held.
  (c) The general election shall be held annually on  the  Tuesday  next
succeeding the first Monday in November.
  * 2.  Polls  shall  be  open  for voting during the following hours: a
primary election from twelve o'clock noon  until  nine  o'clock  in  the
evening,  except  in  the  city  of New York and the counties of Nassau,
Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, Dutchess and  Erie,  and
in  such  city  or  county  from  six  o'clock in the morning until nine
o'clock in the evening; the general election from  six  o'clock  in  the
morning  until nine o'clock in the evening; a special election called by
the governor pursuant  to  the  public  officers  law,  and,  except  as
otherwise provided by law, every other election, from six o'clock in the
morning  until  nine o'clock in the evening. Early voting times shall be
as provided in section 8-600 of this article.
  * NB Effective until January 1, 2020
  * 2. Polls shall be open for voting  during  the  following  hours:  a
primary  election  from six o'clock in the morning until nine o'clock in
the evening; the general election from six o'clock in the morning  until
nine  o'clock  in the evening; a special election called by the governor
pursuant to the public officers law, and, except as  otherwise  provided
by law, every other election, from six o'clock in the morning until nine
o'clock in the evening; early voting hours shall be as provided in title
six  of this article. Early voting times shall be as provided in section
8-600 of this article.
  * NB Effective January 1, 2020
  3. In any election district  in  which  a  primary  of  any  party  is
uncontested,  no  primary  of  such party shall be held. In any election
district in which the primaries of all parties are  uncontested  on  the

day  of any primary election, no primaries shall be held on such day and
the polling place shall not be opened for voting.
  4.  No  primary,  special  or  general election for any state or local
office or for the election of  officers  of  any  corporation  which  is
funded  in  whole or in part by federal, state or municipal moneys shall
be held on a Saturday or Sunday.