2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 53 - School Elections in City School Districts of Cities With Less Than One Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Inhabitants › 2608 - Nomination and Ballot.

§ 2608. Nomination  and ballot. 1. Candidates for members of the board
  of education in a city school district shall be  nominated  by  petition
  directed  to  the  board of education and signed by at least one hundred
  persons qualified to vote at school elections  in  such  district.  Such
  petition  shall  contain  the names and residences of the candidates for
  the vacancies in the board of education  to  be  filled  at  the  annual
  election.  Where  a  proposition  has been adopted by the voters of such
  district to require that each vacancy on the board of  education  to  be
  filled  shall  be  considered  a  separate  specific  office, a separate
  petition shall be required to nominate  a  candidate  to  each  separate
  office  and  such  petition  shall  describe the specific vacancy on the
  board  of  education  for  which  the  candidate  is  nominated,   which
  description  shall include at least the length of the term of office and
  the name of the last incumbent, if any. Such petitions shall be filed in
  the office of the clerk of the board of education between the  hours  of
  nine  a.m.  and  five p.m., on or before the twentieth day preceding the
  day of the annual election. The clerk shall refuse to  accept  petitions
  signed by an insufficient number of qualified voters, or petitions which
  are  not  timely.  If a candidate for whom a nominating petition for the
  office of member of a board of education has been duly  filed  withdraws
  such  petition, dies or becomes otherwise ineligible to hold such office
  at a time which is later than fifteen days before the last day  for  the
  filing of nominating petitions as provided in this subdivision, the time
  for  filing  nominating  petitions  for such office shall be extended to
  five p.m. on the fifteenth day after the date  on  which  the  candidate
  withdrew,  died  or  otherwise  became  ineligible  to hold such office,
  provided that no such nominating petition may be filed after  five  p.m.
  on the seventh day preceding the election.
2.  The  board of education shall cause to be printed official ballots
  containing the names of all candidates as above  provided,  except  that
  the  board  may refuse to have the names of ineligible candidates placed
  on such ballots. The names of the candidates shall be  arranged  in  the
  order  as  determined  by  the  drawing  by  lot  in accordance with the
  provisions of paragraph b of subdivision two  of  section  two  thousand
  thirty-two  of  this  law. Blank spaces shall be provided so that voters
  may vote for candidates who have not been nominated for the  offices  to
  be  filled  at  such  elections.  The form of such ballots shall conform
  substantially to the form  of  ballots  used  at  general  elections  as
  prescribed  in  the  election  law. Such ballots shall be printed at the
  expense of the city school district.
3. There shall be delivered to the inspectors in each school  election
  district  on  the  day of the annual election, before the opening of the
  polls therein, a supply of such ballots which shall at least  equal  the
  number of qualified voters entitled to vote in such district.
4.  Such  ballots  shall  have  printed thereon instructions as to the
  marking of the ballots and the number  of  candidates  for  the  several
  offices for which a voter is permitted to vote.
5.  If  official  ballots  are  not  furnished  as  above provided, an
  election of members of a board of education in a  city  school  district
  shall  not  be declared invalid or illegal because of the use of ballots
  which do not conform to the requirements  of  this  section  or  of  the
  provisions  of the election law, provided the intent of the voter may be
  ascertained from the use of such irregular or defective ballots and such
  use was not fraudulent and did not substantially affect  the  result  of
  the election.