2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 8 - Conduct of Elections › Title 1 - Polling Places › 8-104 - Polls.

§  8-104.  Polls. 1. The American flag shall be kept displayed at each
  polling  place  throughout  the  election.  Facsimile   ballots,   voter
  information  posting  and distance markers shall not be taken down, torn
  or defaced during the election. While the polls are open no person shall
  do any electioneering within the polling place, or in any public street,
  within a one hundred foot radial measured from the entrances  designated
  by  the  inspectors  of  election,  to such polling place or within such
  distance in any place in a  public  manner;  and  no  political  banner,
  button,  poster or placard shall be allowed in or upon the polling place
  or within such one hundred foot radial. While  the  polls  are  open  no
  person  shall  consume any alcoholic beverages within the polling place.
  While the polls are open no person shall make any change, alteration  or
  modification  to  any  entrance to or exit from the polling place unless
  such change, alteration or modification allows for increased access  for
  persons  with disabilities or is necessary to maintain public safety due
  to the occurrence of  an  emergency.  Any  such  change,  alteration  or
  modification  shall  be clearly marked on signage placed adjacent to the
  former entrance or exit.
1-a. The election inspectors shall conspicuously post in  the  polling
  place  before  the  opening  of  the polls, a voter information posting,
  which shall include: (a) the sample ballot and instructions for the  use
  of  ballot  scanners  and  ballot  marking  devices required pursuant to
  section 7-118 of this chapter; (b) a statement that "today  is  election
  day"  and  the  hours  during  which  polling  places  will be open; (c)
  instructions on how to cast an affidavit ballot and a concise  statement
  of  a  voter's  right  to  such  a  ballot; (d) instructions relating to
  requirements for voting on ballot scanners by those registrants who must
  provide identification pursuant to the federal Help America Vote Act  of
  2002;  (e)  instructions  for  first-time  voters; (f) a voter's bill of
  rights describing voter's rights under applicable federal and state law,
  including  the   right   of   accessibility   and   alternate   language
  accessibility;  (g)  information  pertaining  to  voting by election day
  paper ballot, including information about the consequence of casting  an
  overvote,   steps  to  prevent  unintentional  undervoting  and  spoiled
  ballots; (h) instructions on how to contact the appropriate officials if
  a voter's right to  vote  or  right  to  otherwise  participate  in  the
  electoral  process  has  been  violated;  and (i) general information on
  federal and state laws regarding  prohibitions  on  acts  of  fraud  and
  misrepresentation. The state board of elections shall prescribe the form
  and  content of the voter information posting, which may be comprised of
  one or more pages, provided each page shall be  posted  separately.  The
  state  board  of  elections  shall prescribe an official version of such
  voter information posting  for  every  language  which  appears  on  any
  general,  primary or special election ballot in any election district in
  the state and for such other languages as such board,  in  its  opinion,
  determines   is   appropriate.   Such  posting  shall  be  used  in  all
  jurisdictions,  and  a  separate  posting  shall  be  made  by  election
  inspectors  for  each  language  appearing  on  the  ballot and for such
  additional languages as the board of elections may require. A  board  of
  elections may modify or supplement the voter information posting used in
  its  jurisdiction  to provide additional or local information; provided,
  however, any such modification or supplementation shall be submitted  to
  the state board of elections for prior approval.
2.  The ballot boxes, other secure storage containers and all official
  ballots shall be kept within the  guard-rail,  and  at  least  six  feet
  therefrom,  from  the opening of the polls until the announcement of the
  result of the  canvass  and  the  signing  of  the  inspectors'  returns
  thereof.  No  person shall be admitted within the guard-rail during such

  period  except  the  election  officers,  authorized  watchers,  persons
  admitted  by the inspectors to preserve order or enforce the law, voters
  duly admitted for the purpose of voting and children under  the  age  of
  sixteen  accompanying  their  voting  parents  or  guardians;  provided,
  however, that candidates voted for at the polling place  may  be  within
  the guard-rail during the canvass.
3. The provisions of this chapter concerning the preservation of order
  and  apprehension  for  crime on a day of registration, shall apply to a
  day of election, but a person taken into custody shall not be prohibited
  thereby from voting.
4. After a ballot box or  other  secure  storage  container  has  been
  locked  for the purposes of election, it shall not be opened until it is
  opened at the close of the polls for purposes of canvass or by  election
  officials  upon  the  instructions  of  the  board  of  elections.  Each
  inspector shall be responsible personally for the custody of each ballot
  box and other secure storage container and its contents  from  the  time
  the  election  begins until the box or container is delivered, according
  to law, to the person entitled to receive it.
5. Voters entitled to vote who are on line or in the polling place  at
  the  time  fixed by law for the closing of the polls shall be allowed to
  vote.
6. In the city of New York, during days of primary,  general,  special
  and community school board elections, at each premises wherein a polling
  place  or  places  are  located,  at  least  one police officer or peace
  officer designated by the police commissioner of such city  pursuant  to
  the  provisions  of  article  two of the criminal procedure law shall be
  assigned for duty from the opening  until  the  closing  of  the  polls.
  Additional  police  officers  or  peace  officers  may be assigned as is
  deemed appropriate by the police commissioner of such city.
7. This section shall apply on all early voting days as  provided  for
  in section 8-600 of this article.