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The Board of Elections in the City of New York
Section 4 – Canvass/Re-Canvass Procedures
October, 2014
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PURPOSE
After an Election, the Board of Elections in the City of New York (BOE in NYC) conducts a
number of canvass activities as prescribed by New York State Election Law, New York State
Board of Elections Rules and Regulations, and BOE in NYC policy and standard operating
procedures.
These activities include:
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Receiving Materials from the Poll sites
2.
Receiving Unofficial Election Night Results
3.
Manually Re-Canvassing Emergency Ballots
4.
Reading Portable Memory Devices (PMDs)
5.
Recording Write-In Names from Poll site Ballots
6.
Auditing Poll Site Scanners
7.
Re-Canvassing Poll site Ballots
8.
Canvassing/Re-Canvassing Absentee/Military/Special, Affidavit, Presidential, and Federal
Ballots
9.
Auditing Central Ballot Scanners
10. Manually Re-Canvassing Paper Ballots Re-Canvassing
11. Canvassing Mechanical Lever Voting Machines
12. Canvassing Ballot Marking Device (BMD) Affidavit Ballots
13. Entering Write-in Names into S-Elect
The purpose of this document is to provide detailed instructions to accomplish these tasks. As
mandated by the Commissioners of Elections in the City of New York, bi-partisan Board staff
will implement the procedures detailed in this document in an accurate and uniform manner in
New York, Bronx, Kings, Queens and Richmond counties.
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