2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 11 - Special Presidential and Special Federal Voters and Special Ballots › Title 2 - Special Federal Voters › 11-204 - Processing of Applications by Board of Elections.

§  11-204.  Processing  of  applications by board of elections. 1. The
  registration application forms shall be in  a  form  prescribed  by  the
  state board of elections.
2.  Upon  receipt  of  an  application,  the  board of elections shall
  determine upon such inquiry as it deems proper whether the applicant has
  answered all the questions contained in the application and whether  the
  applicant  is  legally  qualified  to receive and vote a special federal
  ballot. If it finds he is not so qualified, the board shall  reject  the
  application  and  shall  notify the applicant of such rejection and give
  the reason or reasons therefor in accordance with the  preferred  method
  of  transmission  designated  by the voter pursuant to section 11-203 of
  this title. All investigations  by  the  board  of  elections  shall  be
  concluded  and  all determinations made not later than the twentieth day
  before election.
3. If a federal post card application form is received from  a  person
  who  is  qualified  to  vote  as a special federal voter but who has not
  previously registered pursuant to the provisions  of  this  title,  such
  federal  post  card application form shall be treated in all respects as
  an application for registration and enrollment  and  a  special  federal
  ballot  pursuant to the provisions of this title. If such a federal post
  card application form is received from a person already registered as  a
  special  federal  voter  pursuant  to the provisions of this title, such
  application shall be treated in all respects as  an  application  for  a
  special federal ballot pursuant to the provisions of this title.
4. If the board of elections shall determine that the applicant making
  the application provided for in this section is qualified to receive and
  vote a special federal ballot, it shall, as soon as practicable after it
  shall  have  so determined, or not later than forty-six days before each
  general or primary election or special election in which such  applicant
  is   qualified  to  vote,  or  three  days  after  receipt  of  such  an
  application, whichever is later, mail to him or  her  at  the  residence
  address  outside  the  United  States shown in his or her application, a
  special federal ballot, an  inner  affirmation  envelope  and  an  outer
  envelope,  or  otherwise distribute same to the voter in accordance with
  the preferred method of transmission designated by the voter pursuant to
  section 11-203 of this title. The board of elections shall also mail, or
  otherwise  distribute  in  accordance  with  the  preferred  method   of
  transmission  designated by the voter pursuant to section 11-203 of this
  title, a special federal ballot to every qualified special federal voter
  who is already registered and who requests such special  federal  ballot
  from  such  board of elections in a letter, which is signed by the voter
  and received by the board of elections not later than  the  seventh  day
  before  the  election  for which the ballot is first requested and which
  states the address where the voter is  registered  and  the  address  to
  which  the  ballot is to be mailed. The board of elections shall enclose
  with such ballot a form of application for a special federal ballot.
5. The board of elections shall keep a list of the  persons  who  have
  made  and  signed  applications  for  special federal ballots and of the
  applicants who have been determined to be  qualified.  The  board  shall
  keep open to public inspection such list of applicants with their names,
  addresses,  party  enrollments,  and application dates and shall give to
  the chairman of each political party in the county fifteen  days  before
  each  election,  a  complete  list of special federal voters eligible to
  vote in  such  election.  Such  list  shall  contain  the  names,  party
  enrollments  for  a  primary  election  and places of previous residence
  including the election district and ward, if any, and, in  the  city  of
  New  York  and  the  county of Nassau, the assembly district of all such
  voters.