2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 5 - Registration and Enrollment of Voters › Title 3 - Enrollment › 5-306 - Enrollment; Correction Of.

§  5-306.  Enrollment;  correction  of.  1.  If, after being regularly
  registered in an election district, a voter  discovers  he  has  made  a
  mistake when enrolling, he may within one year from the date of his last
  registration  apply  to  the board of elections of the county or city in
  which he resides for a correction  of  the  mistake  made  by  him  when
  marking  his  enrollment  blank,  by  filing his affidavit setting forth
  substantially as follows: how he is enrolled,  and  the  town  or  city,
  election  district, and when required, the ward or assembly district, in
  which he is registered, the street address, if any, from  which  he  was
  registered, a statement, in substance, that his current enrollment blank
  was  not  marked correctly and that he did not intend to be so enrolled;
  the name of the party with which he did intend to enroll  and  which  he
  desires  to  be entered on the registration records; a statement that he
  has been duly and regularly  enrolled  with  the  party  whose  name  he
  desires  entered  on  his  registration  records for at least five years
  immediately preceding the registration at which such mistake occurred or
  that he was not registered for all or part of such five year period; the
  county or counties and the addresses at which he resided when he was  so
  enrolled;  that  he  is  in  general sympathy with the principles of the
  party with which he requests to  be  enrolled  and  intends  to  support
  generally  its  nominees  at  the next general election, and a statement
  that he has not enrolled in any party or  participated  in  any  primary
  election  or  convention  of any party during the past five years, other
  than the one with which he requests to be enrolled.
2. If the applicant's certificate or, the registration records in  the
  office  of  such board show the applicant to have been registered during
  such five year period elsewhere in the state of New York the board shall
  require  the  applicant  to  produce  a  certified  transcript  of   his
  enrollment,  if  any,  in  such  other  jurisdiction  within  the  state
  accompanied with proof, by affidavit,  showing  his  identity  with  the
  person  whose  name  appears  in  such transcript. If the records of any
  board of elections within the state show  the  applicant  to  have  been
  enrolled  during  such  five year period in any party other than the one
  with which he requests to be enrolled, or to have  been  registered  but
  not  enrolled,  the  application  for  correction of enrollment shall be
  denied.
3. A voter may correct their enrollment pursuant hereto on any of  the
  days  the  board  is open for registration. A correction made during the
  nine-day period preceding a primary election shall not be effective  for
  such election.
4.  Where  such  application for correction of enrollment is approved,
  the board of elections shall enter the date of  filing  of  the  voter's
  affidavit  along with the new party of enrollment in the spaces provided
  for entering enrollments on the back of his registration poll record  or
  in  the  computer  file  from  which the computer generated registration
  lists are prepared and the words "Enrollment Corrected" shall be entered
  in the remarks space therein. If requested by any member of  the  board,
  the  correction  of enrollment of any voter, or group of voters, must be
  approved by two such  board  members  or  two  employees  of  the  board
  representing  different  political  parties.  Such  members or employees
  shall place their initials  or  other  identifying  information  on  the
  registration  poll record of such voter, or on a computer generated list
  of such corrections of enrollment. Such lists shall be preserved in  the
  same  manner,  and for the same time, as such registration poll records.
  The board shall file such affidavit in a file specially  maintained  for
  that purpose.