2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 41 - District Meetings › Part 1 - General Provisions › 2035 - Use of Voting Machines at School District Meetings or Elections.

§ 2035. Use   of  voting  machines  at  school  district  meetings  or
  elections.   1. If the trustees or board  of  education  of  any  school
  district  shall  so determine, voting machines may be used for recording
  the vote on elections and questions, or either, at the  school  district
  meetings  or elections, annual and special, or either, in such district.
  Before any such machine is used at any such  meeting  or  election,  the
  inspectors  of  election  shall examine it and see that all the counters
  are set at zero (000) and that the ballot labels  are  properly  placed,
  and that the machine is in all respects in proper condition for use. The
  use  of  such machine shall be deemed a compliance with any provision of
  law requiring the vote to be  by  ballot.  Such  trustees  or  board  of
  education,  with  district  funds  available, may purchase the necessary
  voting machine or machines; or, if the county board of  elections  shall
  consent  thereto,  such machines belonging to the county or belonging to
  the town in which any part of said school district shall be located, may
  be used at any such meeting, the expense of delivery and  returning  and
  setting up, and any other expense connected therewith, to be defrayed by
  the school district; but such machines belonging to the county shall not
  be  so  used  at  the  time or times when they may be required under the
  election law.
2. In common school districts the  manner  of  making  nominations  or
  submitting  propositions  by anyone other than the trustees and in union
  free school districts the manner of submitting  propositions  by  anyone
  other  than  the board of education for the purpose of preparing ballots
  for the machine shall be prescribed by a rule previously adopted by  the
  trustees  or  board  of education; provided, however, that the petition,
  certificate, declaration, notice or other paper required by  such  rule,
  for  the  making  of  any  such nomination or submission, except as to a
  question or proposition required by law to be stated in the published or
  posted notice of the meeting shall be filed with the trustees  or  board
  of  education not later than thirty days before the meeting or election.
  Any nomination may be rejected by  the  trustees  if  the  candidate  is
  ineligible  for  the  office or has declared his unwillingness to serve;
  any proposition may be rejected by the trustees or board of education if
  the purpose of the proposition is not within the power of the voters, or
  where the expenditure of moneys is required by the proposition,  if  the
  proposition  fails  to include the necessary specific appropriation. Any
  such rule may be amended  from  time  to  time  and  may  state  that  a
  reasonable   minimum   number   of  signatures  shall  be  required  for
  submission. The trustees or board of education shall  cause  such  rule,
  and amendments from time to time, to be printed for general distribution
  in  the  district. Provided, however, that the provisions of any special
  law relating to nominations and  elections  in  any  union  free  school
  district  shall  continue  to  remain in force, and the manner of making
  nominations and the conduct of meetings and elections, shall conform  to
  such special law.
3. Any proposition submitted pursuant to this section shall be subject
  to  the  requirements  set  forth  in  subdivision  nine  of section two
  thousand twenty-three-a of this part.