9-120 - Returns of canvass; generally. - New York Statutes

§ 9-120. Returns of canvass; generally. 1. Upon completing the canvass, the inspectors shall prepare their returns of the canvass. They shall use therefor the printed form supplied to them and, at an election which was not conducted on a voting machine which produces a printed or photographic record, they shall carefully insert thereon, in ink, the appropriate names, words and figures according to the directions printed in the form provided by this chapter. The printed or photographic record produced by the voting machine and the tally sheets for any office, party position or ballot proposal, if separate from the statement of return, shall be securely attached by the chairman to such statement of returns. A printed or photographic record or a tally sheet, when so annexed, or forming part of the same paper as the return, shall be treated as part of the return. The inspectors, and clerks, if any, shall subscribe in ink the certificate at the end of the set of returns. Each set of returns shall be securely sealed in an envelope properly endorsed on the outside by the inspectors. At an election at which voting machines are not used, the ballot boxes, if any, supplied by the board of elections, may when securely locked be used instead of sealed envelopes. 2. The form for the return or returns of the canvass shall be printed in a form approved by the state board of elections.