N.Y. Election Law Section 8-510
Challenge report

  • completion of and procedure after

1.

Immediately after the close of the polls the board of inspectors of election shall verify the entries which it has made on the challenge report or in the spaces provided in the computer generated registration list by comparing such entries with the information appearing on the registration poll records of the affected voters or the information appearing in the spaces provided in the computer generated registration list. If it has made no entries in section two, three or four of such report it shall write across or note in such section the words “No challenges”, “No assistance” or “None”, as the case may be, as directed in this chapter.

2.

After completing such report the inspectors shall sign a certificate in the spaces provided by the county board of elections for such report.

3.

The inspectors shall place such completed report, and each court order, if any, directing that a person be permitted to vote, in the secure container provided by the county board of elections for such ledger of registration records or computer generated registration lists and then shall close and seal each ledger of registration records or computer generated registration lists, lock such ledger in the carrying case furnished for that purpose and enclose the keys in a sealed package or seal such list in the envelope provided for that purpose.

Source: Section 8-510 — Challenge report; completion of and procedure after, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/ELN/8-510 (updated Apr. 19, 2019; accessed Dec. 6, 2025).

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