2021 New York Laws
ELN - Election
Article 9 - Canvass of Results
Title 1 - Canvass at Polling Places
9-114 - Counting Ballots; Objections To.

§  9-114.  Counting ballots; objections to. 1. If objection be made to
  the counting of any ballot or as to any section of any such ballot,  the
  board  of  inspectors  shall  forthwith  and before canvassing any other
  ballot or section thereof, rule upon the objection. If the objection  be
  continued  after  this  ruling,  the  chair  or  an  inspector under the
  scrutiny of an inspector of the opposite party shall write in  ink  upon
  the  back  of  the  ballot a memorandum of the ruling and objection. The
  memorandum of the ruling shall  be  in  the  words  "Counted  void",  or
  "Counted  blank", or "Counted for (naming the candidate or candidates or
  the presidential ticket)", or, in the case of a ballot proposal "Counted
  for Proposal No.......," or "Counted against  Proposal  No........",  as
  the  case  may be. The memorandum of the objection shall be in the words
  "Objected to", followed by a  brief  statement  of  the  nature  of  the
  objection,  the  name and address of the challenger and the signature of
  the chair or inspector.
2. Any ballot to which objection is not  taken  but  which  is  wholly
  blank  or  is void shall be indorsed in ink by the chair of the board of
  inspectors or an inspector under the scrutiny of  an  inspector  of  the
  opposite  party with the words "Wholly blank" or "Void", as the case may
  be, and signed by the chair or inspector.
3. When all the ballots of any one kind shall have been canvassed, the
  inspectors shall ascertain the total number of all such ballots and  the
  number  of ballots to which any objection was taken and shall enter such
  numbers in the place provided therefor in  the  inspectors'  returns  of
  such canvass.