Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) A
cover sheet shall contain the following information:
(1) The office and district number (where
appropriate) for which each designation and nomination is being made, the name
and residence address of each candidate, and the number of volumes comprising
the petition. The names and addresses of candidates for the county committee
may be set forth, by assembly district (or, in the City of New York, by
election district) on a schedule to be annexed to the cover sheet. Cover sheets
for the positions of county committee in the City of New York shall include, in
addition to such schedule a list by election district of the identification
numbers (if known) or the volume number, and page number where such signatures
appear for each election district.
(2) An identification of the volumes
comprising the petition. When multiple volumes are filed pursuant to section
6215.1(e)(1)
or (2) of this Part, a single cover sheet may
be filed with volumes identified by listing the identification number of each
volume either individually or cumulatively, and the total number of volumes in
the petition. With respect to all other petitions filed in multiple volumes,
each volume shall have a cover sheet which shall indicate the volume number;
such volumes shall be numbered sequentially and the cover sheet from the first
volume shall set forth the total number of volumes comprising
petition.
(3) A statement that the
petition contains the number, or in excess of the number, of valid signatures,
required by the Election Law.
(4) A
place for the optional designation of a contact person other than the
candidate(s) to be notified to correct noncompliance with these
regulations.
(5) Where a
designating or independent nominating petition involves the office of governor,
lieutenant governor, attorney general, state comptroller, member of the state
senate or member of the state assembly, the cover sheet shall contain a place
for the optional designation of the official campaign website address
information for posting on the State Board of Elections' website pursuant to
Election Law Section 4-123. Any board of elections receiving such cover sheet
or a separate written notification pursuant to paragraph (b) of part 6215.9 of
these regulations, other than the State Board of Elections, shall transmit a
copy of such cover sheet or separate written notification to the State Board of
Elections within three business days of its filing and such website addresses
shall b e posted by the state board on its website as soon as
practicable.
(b) Cover
sheets shall be substantially in the form set forth in section
6215.8,
infra.
(c) Where a designating
petition involves an office to be filled by the voters of the entire state, the
petition shall be accompanied by a schedule which sets forth the volume and
page number of each sheet on which signatures appear of at least one hundred or
five percentum, whichever is less, of properly enrolled voters in each of at
least one-half of the congressional districts of the state.
(d) Where an independent nominating petition
involves an office to be filled by the voters of the entire state, the petition
shall be accompanied by a schedule which sets forth the volume and page number
of each sheet on which signatures appear of at least five hundred or one
percentum, whichever is less, of voters in each of at least one-half of the
congressional districts of the state.
