§ 331. Ballots and stationery. L. 1918, ch. 323. the legislative printer, and transmit to the board of elections of each county, and to the board of elections of the city of New York, located in the borough of Manhattan, and to the branch office of the board of elections in each of the other boroughs of the city of New York, a sufficient number of copies thereof to furnish one such copy to each member of each such board and to each of said branch offices of the board of elections of the city of New York and one to each county, town, village and city clerk and to each election officer in any such county and said boroughs, together with such number of extra copies as may in his judgment be necessary to replace copies lost or mutilated before delivery thereof to election officers. The board of elections of each county, except those counties the whole of which is included within the city of New York, shall forthwith transmit one of such copies to each of such officers in such county, and the board of elections of the city of New York shall cause to be delivered one of such copies to each of such officers in the city of New York. Each copy so received by each such officer shall belong to the office of the person receiving it. Every incumbent of the office shall preserve such copy during his term of office and upon the expiration of his term or removal from office deliver it to his successor. The secretary of state shall also transmit to the state superintendent of elections a sufficient number of such copies to furnish fifty copies to the superintendent and two copies to each deputy. (Amended by L. 1916, ch. 537 and L. 1918, ch. 323, § 47.) §331. Classification of ballots; form of ballots for candidates.-1. General provisions. There shall be five kinds of ballots, called respectively ballots for presidential electors, ballots for general officers, ballots upon constitutional amendments and questions submitted, ballots upon town propositions, and ballots upon town appropriations, which shall be used for the purposes which their names severally indicate and not otherwise. Ballots for general officers shall contain the names of all candidates except presidential electors. All ballots shall be printed in black ink, on book paper of good quality free from ground wood, five hundred sheets of which twenty-five by thirty-eight inches in size shall weigh sixty pounds and shall test for that size and weight at least twenty points on a Morrison tester. They shall be rectangular in shape, not less than eight inches in width and twelve inches in length, and shall have a margin extending beyond any printing thereon. All ballots of the same kind for the same polling place shall be of precisely the same size, quality and shade of paper, and of precisely the same kind and arrangement of type and tint of ink. A different, but in each. case uniform, kind of type shall be used for printing the names of candidates, the titles of offices, political designations, and the reading form of constitutional amendments and other questions and propositions submitted. L. 1918, ch. 323. Ballots and stationery. § 331. The names of candidates shall be printed in capital letters in black-faced type not less than one-eighth nor more than three-sixteenths of an inch in height. Each ballot shall be printed on the same sheet with a stub and shall be separated therefrom by a horizontal line of perforations extending across the entire width of the ballot. On the face of the stub shall be printed the instructions to voters hereinafter provided. On the back of the stub, immediately above the center of the indorsement on the back of the ballot hereinafter referred to, shall be printed "No. ......," the blank to be filled with the consecutive number of the ballot, beginning with "No. 1," and increasing in regular numerical order. On the back of the ballot, below the line of perforations, just to the right of the center, and outside when the ballot is folded, shall be printed the following indorsement, the blanks being properly filled and the numbers running from one upward, consecutively. Official Ballot (for Presidential Electors). Assembly District (ward or town). (Date of Election). (Facsimile of the signature of officer causing the ballot to be printed). Each ballot shall be printed in sections, on which the candidates' names, emblems and political designations, or the constitutional amendment, or other question submitted, with the voting squares, and other requisite matter shall be boxed in by heavy black lines in the manner indicated in the illustration of the ballot hereinafter provided. The voting squares and the spaces occupied by emblems shall have a depth and width of five-sixteenths of an inch. In case the sections shall be so numerous as to make the ballot unwieldy if they are printed in one column, they may be printed in as many columns as shall be necessary, and in that case, in order to produce an exactly rectangular ballot, blank sections may be used. On each ballot shall be voting squares in which voters may make their voting marks. All voting squares shall be bounded by heavy black lines, the perpendicular lines to be not less than one-sixteenth of an inch wide. In all ballots there shall be a perpendicular column of these squares, and in the ballot for general officers, in the case of a candidate for governor or member of assembly nominated by two or more political organizations, the additional squares arranged horizontally as provided in subdivision three of this section. No voting squares shall be provided in the blank spaces for written names. § 331. Ballots and stationery. L. 1918, ch. 323. The ballots bearing the same number at the same election shall constitute a set of ballots. Each political organization whose party name contains more than eleven letters shall select an abbreviated form thereof containing not more than eleven letters which shall be used upon the ballot whenever the necessities of space shall so require. The abbreviated form shall be certified at the same time and in the same manner as party names are required to be certified. In printing the names of candidates whose full names contain sixteen letters or more not more than one name other than the surname shall be printed in full, and each candidate may indicate in writing to the officer or officers charged with the duty of preparing the ballots the form in which, subject to this restriction, his name shall be printed. No emblem shall occupy a space longer in any direction than the voting square to which it relates. In conforming with the foregoing provisions and with the provisions of subdivision three of this section the face of the ballot for general officers shall be substantially in the following form: [Face of ballot.] 1. 2. To vote for a candidate on this ballot Make a single cross X mark in one of the squares to the right of an emblem opposite his name. To vote for a candidate NOT on this ballot write his name on a blank line under the candidates for that office. 4. Any other mark, or erasure on this ballot is unlawful. 5. If you tear or deface, or wrongly mark this ballot, return it and obtain another. * Emblems of parties are omitted. See Session Law of 1918. 2. Ballots for presidential electors. The names of the presidential electors of each party shall be printed in one column indicating: First. The electors at large, whose names shall be arranged in the alphabetical order of the surnames; and Second. The electors of each district, whose names shall be arranged in the numerical order of their district. The columns shall be parallel to each other and shall be separated by heavy black lines. In addition to the party columns a blank column with lines for writing shall also be provided in which voters may write the names of candidates for presidential electors not on the ballot and which shall be sufficient to contain as many names as there are electors to be chosen. It shall be designated as the blank column and shall contain no voting spaces. At the head of each party column shall be printed the party emblem; below this a blank circle three-quarters of an inch in diameter; below this the party name in large type; below this the names of the candidates for president and vice-president; and below this a heavy line dividing the heading from the names of the presidential electors. Above the name of the first elector shall be printed the words "presidential electors." The names of the presidential electors shall be printed in spaces one-quarter of an inch. in depth, except that the first space containing also the words "presidential electors" shall be half an inch in depth. The spaces shall be divided from each other by light horizontal lines. At the left of the name of each elector shall be printed a voting space one-quarter of an inch square, except the space opposite the first name, which shall be half an inch in depth. Each party circle shall be surrounded by the following instructions, plainly printed: "For a straight ticket, mark within this circle." The columns for the presidential electors of independent bodies shall be § 331. Ballots and stationery. L. 1918, ch. 323. similar to the party columns except that above the emblem in each column shall be printed the words "independent nominations" in large type like that used for the party names. In the blank column the space occupied by the emblem and voting circle in the party column shall be occupied by the following instructions, plainly printed: "In the column below, the voter may write the name of any person for whom he desires to vote whose name is not printed on the ballot." Below the line dividing the heading from the blank spaces shail be printed, as in the other columns, the words "presidential electors. The columns shall be arranged upon the ballot as directed by the secretary of state, precedence, however, being given to the several parties according to the number of votes for governor polled at the last preceding gubernatorial election. On the stub at the top of the ballot shall be printed in heavy black type the following instructions: "1. To vote for all the electors of one party make a cross X mark within the circle above the party column. 2. To vote for some, but not all, of the electors of one party make a cross mark in the square at the left of the name of every candidate printed on the ballot for whom you desire to vote. 3. To vote for any candidate not on the ballot write his name in the blank space provided therefor. 4. Mark only with a pencil having black lead. 5. Any other mark or any erasure or tear on the ballot renders it void. 6. If you tear, or deface, or wrongly mark this ballot, return it and obtain another." 3. Ballots for general officers. The names of all candidates for any one office shall be printed in a separate section, and the sections shall be in the customary order of the offices and shall be numbered from one upward by a numeral printed in the upper right hand corner of the section. The names of candidates shall be printed in their appropriate section in such order as the board of elections may direct, precedence, however, being given, except as herein otherwise provided, to the candidate of the party which polled the highest number of votes for governor at the last preceding election for such officer, and so on. At the top of each section in the center shall be printed on one line the title of the office. On the same line, to the left of such title and immediately above the emblems and voting squares, there shall be printed a direction as to the number of candidates for whom a vote may be cast, which direction shall be punctuated by an exclamation point. If two or more candidates are nominated for the same office for different terms, the term for which each is nominated shall be printed as a part of the title of the office. At the bottom of each section as many separate spaces as there are candidates to be elected shall be left blank in which the voter may write the names of any candidates not on the ballot. Except |