2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 17 - Protecting the Elective Franchise › Title 2 - John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York › 17-212 - Prohibition Against Voter Intimidation, Deception or Obstruction.

§ 17-212. Prohibition   against   voter   intimidation,  deception  or
obstruction. 1. (a) No person, whether acting  under  color  of  law  or
otherwise, may engage in acts of intimidation, deception, or obstruction
that affects the right of voters to access the elective franchise.
(b)  A  violation  of  paragraph  (a)  of  this  subdivision  shall be
established if:
(i) a person uses or threatens to use any force, violence,  restraint,
abduction  or  duress,  or  inflicts or threatens to inflict any injury,
damage, harm or loss, or in any other manner practices intimidation that
causes or will reasonably have the effect of causing any person to  vote
or  refrain  from  voting  in  general  or for or against any particular
person or for or against any proposition submitted  to  voters  at  such
election; to place or refrain from placing their name upon a registry of
voters;  or  to  request  or  refrain  from  requesting an early mail or
absentee ballot; or
(ii) a person knowingly  uses  any  deceptive  or  fraudulent  device,
contrivance  or  communication,  that  impedes,  prevents  or  otherwise
interferes with the free exercise  of  the  elective  franchise  by  any
person, or that causes or will reasonably have the effect of causing any
person  to  vote or refrain from voting in general or for or against any
particular person or for or against any proposition submitted to  voters
at  such  election;  to  place or refrain from placing their name upon a
registry of voters; or to request or refrain from  requesting  an  early
mail or absentee ballot; or
(iii) a person obstructs, impedes, or otherwise interferes with access
to  any  polling  place  or  elections office, or obstructs, impedes, or
otherwise interferes with any voter in any manner that  causes  or  will
reasonably  have the effect of causing any delay in voting or the voting
process, including the canvassing and tabulation of ballots.
2. Standing. Any  aggrieved  persons,  organization  whose  membership
includes aggrieved persons or members of a protected class, organization
whose  mission, in whole or in part, is to ensure voting access and such
mission would be hindered  by  a  violation  of  this  section,  or  the
attorney  general  may  file  an  action pursuant to this section in the
supreme court of the county in  which  the  alleged  violation  of  this
section occurred.
3.  Remedies.  Upon  a finding of a violation of any provision of this
section,  the  court  shall  implement  appropriate  remedies  that  are
tailored to remedy the violation, including but not limited to providing
for additional time to cast a ballot that may be counted in the election
at  issue.  Any  party  who  shall  violate any of the provisions of the
foregoing section or  who  shall  aid  the  violation  of  any  of  said
provisions  shall  be  liable  to  any  prevailing  plaintiff  party for
damages, including nominal damages for any violation,  and  compensatory
or punitive damages for any intentional violation.