2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 5 - Registration and Enrollment of Voters › Title 2 - Registration and Enrollment › 5-215 - Veterans' Absentee Registration.

§ 5-215. Veterans' absentee registration. 1. The board of elections in
  the  county  in  which  a  veterans' hospital is located shall appoint a
  board of registration which shall attend each veterans' hospital between
  the hours of nine o'clock in the morning and five o'clock in the evening
  on the seventh Thursday before each general election and, in  the  event
  that  it  be  necessary for the completion of its duties, on the seventh
  Friday before such election except that if any of the religious holidays
  of Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Simchas Torah, Shmini Atzereth or  Succoth
  shall  fall  on  such  days, such registration shall be held on the next
  regular business day which does  not  fall  on  any  of  such  religious
  holidays, and shall receive from residents or patients therein, or their
  spouses,  parents  and  children,  the  applications  of such of them as
  desire and are qualified to be registered by absentee registration.
2. After the applicant completes and signs the application, or has  it
  signed  for  him, it shall be deposited by or for him in an envelope and
  sealed. Before receiving the next application the  board  shall  address
  the envelope to the board of elections in the county where the applicant
  resides  and  note upon a form provided for such purpose the date of the
  application, the name and residence address of  the  applicant  and  the
  name of the hospital at which the application was received.
3.  At  the  end  of each day each member of such board shall sign the
  form containing the list of applicants with their  names  and  addresses
  and  they  shall,  no  later  than the next day, return the list and the
  sealed envelopes to the board of elections  in  the  county  where  such
  hospital is located.
4.  The  board  of  elections  upon receipt of such applications shall
  immediately mail those applications that are addressed to another  board
  of elections and shall process those applications addressed to it.
5.  If  a veterans health administration hospital in which any veteran
  entitled to vote in this state is a  resident  or  patient,  is  located
  outside  the  State  of  New  York,  an application for an early mail or
  absentee ballot signed by such veteran or his or her spouse,  parent  or
  child  accompanying or being with him or her, if a qualified voter and a
  resident of the  same  election  district,  shall  constitute  permanent
  personal registration.
6.  All  applications made and received pursuant to this section shall
  be processed in the manner provided herein for personal registration  by
  mail.
7. The cost incurred by the county in which such veterans' hospital is
  located,  for  the  registration  of  voters  as herein provided, may be
  apportioned to the counties in which such voters reside in proportion to
  the  number  of  applicants  for  such  registration  residing  in  such
  counties.
8.  The  board  of  elections shall not be required to send a board of
  central registration to each veterans' hospital in such county, pursuant
  to the provisions of this section, if, in lieu thereof, it shall provide
  such hospital with mail registration  application  forms  in  sufficient
  quantity so that each resident or patient of such hospital who wishes to
  register  will  be able to do so. A complete application received from a
  resident or patient whose residence is in a county other than the county
  in which the hospital is located shall be immediately transmitted to the
  appropriate board of elections.