2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 4 - Proceedings Preliminary to Registration, Enrollment and Elections › 4-117 - Check of Registrants and Information Notice by Mail.

§  4-117. Check of registrants and information notice by mail.  1. The
  board of elections, between the third Tuesday in April  and  the  second
  Friday in May in each year, shall send by mail on which is endorsed such
  language  designated  by  the  state board of elections to ensure postal
  authorities do not forward such mail but  return  it  to  the  board  of
  elections  with  forwarding  information, when it cannot be delivered as
  addressed and which contains a request that any such mail  received  for
  persons  not  residing  at  the  address  be dropped back in the mail, a
  communication, in a form approved by the state board  of  elections,  to
  every  registered  voter  who  has  been  registered without a change of
  address since the beginning of such  year,  except  that  the  board  of
  elections shall not be required to send such communications to voters in
  inactive  status. The communication shall notify the voter in bold print
  contained in such notice of the days and hours of  the  ensuing  primary
  and  general  elections, the place where he or she appears by his or her
  registration records to be entitled to vote, and also in other than bold
  type of the fact that voters who have moved or will have moved from  the
  address  where they were last registered must either notify the board of
  elections of his or her new address or  vote  by  paper  ballot  at  the
  polling  place  for  his  or  her new address even if such voter has not
  re-registered, or otherwise notified  the  board  of  elections  of  the
  change  of address. If the primary will not be held on the first Tuesday
  after the second Monday in September, the communication shall contain  a
  conspicuous  notice  in  all capital letters and bold font notifying the
  voter of the primary date. If the location of the polling place for  the
  voter's  election  district  has  been  moved,  the  communication shall
  contain the following legend in bold type: "YOUR POLLING PLACE HAS  BEEN
  CHANGED.  YOU  NOW  VOTE AT..........". The communication shall indicate
  that any registered voter may vote early by  mail  by  applying  for  an
  early  mail ballot, and provide information on how to apply for an early
  mail ballot. The communication shall also indicate whether  the  polling
  place is accessible to physically disabled voters, that a voter who will
  be  out  of  the  city  or  county  on the day of the primary or general
  election or a voter who is ill or  physically  disabled  may  obtain  an
  absentee ballot, that a physically disabled voter whose polling place is
  not  accessible  may request that his registration record be moved to an
  election district which has a polling place  which  is  accessible,  the
  phone  number  to call for applications to move a registration record or
  for early mail or absentee ballot applications, the phone number to call
  for the location of registration and polling places, the phone number to
  call to indicate that the voter is willing to serve on election  day  as
  an  election  inspector, poll clerk, interpreter or in other capacities,
  the phone number to call to obtain an application  for  registration  by
  mail,   and   such   other   information  concerning  the  elections  or
  registration  as  the  board  may  include.  In  lieu  of  sending  such
  communication to every registered voter, the board of elections may send
  a   single  communication  to  a  household  containing  more  than  one
  registered voter, provided that the names of all such voters  appear  as
  part of the address on such communication.
1-a.  The  notice  required  by  subdivision one of this section shall
  include the dates, hours and locations of early voting for  the  general
  and  primary  election. The board of elections may alternatively satisfy
  the notice requirement of this subdivision by providing  in  the  notice
  instructions to obtain the required early voting information by means of
  a website and phone number of the board of elections.
2.  Whenever  a  ballot  proposal is to be submitted to the people for
  approval at any election, the board  of  elections  may  send  to  every

  registered voter, by the same mail containing the communication required
  by this section, a copy of the abstract of such ballot proposal.
3.  Each  year,  in  the month of December, the commissioners of every
  local board of elections shall file with the state board  of  elections,
  on  a  form  provided  therefor by such state board, a statement setting
  forth the approximate number of communications mailed  pursuant  to  the
  requirements  of  this  section  and  the  approximate  number  of  such
  communications returned by the post  office.  Such  statement  shall  be
  sworn or subscribed to and bear a form notice that false statements made
  therein  are  punishable  as  a  class A misdemeanor pursuant to section
  210.45 of the penal law. The failure of a local board  of  elections  to
  file  such  a certificate in any year, within the time prescribed, shall
  create a presumption that such board of  elections  did  not  mail  such
  communications in such year. Not later than January thirty-first of each
  year,  the  state  board  of elections shall publish a chart listing, by
  county, the numbers contained in the certificates required to  be  filed
  by  each  local  board  of  elections  in  December of the previous year
  pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision.