Section 16-108. Proceedings as to registration and voting

1. The supreme
  court, by a justice thereof within the judicial district, or the  county
  court,  by  a county judge within his county, in a proceeding instituted
  by any voter to whom registration has  been  unlawfully  refused,  shall
  compel,  by  order, the registration of such voter, and, in a proceeding
  instituted by any voter duly qualified to vote in this state, or by  the
  state  board  of  elections, shall, by order, direct the cancellation of
  the registration of any person who shall unlawfully be  registered,  and
  shall  order  the  board of elections or other official charged with the
  conduct of registration to carry out such order.
    2. In any such proceeding the board of  elections  or  other  official
  charged  with  the  conduct  of the election, in which it is claimed the
  registration  of  the  voter  unlawfully  was  refused   or   unlawfully
  registered,  shall  be  a  necessary  party and the person whose name is
  sought to be stricken from the register shall likewise  be  a  necessary
  party,  and  the  board and such person shall receive such notice as the
  court, justice or judge shall direct.
    3. Such court, in a proceeding  instituted  by  any  voter  unlawfully
  denied the right to vote by the inspectors, shall, by order, direct that
  he  be  allowed  to  vote  at  his  polling  place  and within the hours
  established by law.  Such order shall, where necessary, direct the board
  of  elections  to  complete  the  voter's  registration  and  enrollment
  records.
    4.  Such  court,  justice  or judge, in a proceeding instituted by any
  voter unlawfully denied an absentee ballot or the application  therefor,
  shall  compel,  by  order,  the  delivery  to  such voter of a ballot or
  application.
    5. An affidavit by any officer or employee of the board of  elections,
  or  by  any police officer, sheriff or deputy sheriff, or by any special
  investigator appointed by the state board of elections, that he  visited
  the  premises  claimed  by  the  applicant  as his residence and that he
  interrogated  an  inmate,  housedweller,   keeper,   caretaker,   owner,
  proprietor  or  landlord  thereof  or  therein  as  to  the  applicant's
  residence therein or thereat, and that he was informed by one or more of
  such persons, naming them, that they knew the persons residing upon such
  premises and that the applicant did not reside upon such premises thirty
  days before the election, shall  be  presumptive  evidence  against  the
  right of the voter to register from such premises.
    6.  For  each  primary,  special  and  general election, the presiding
  justice of the appellate division  of  the  first  and  second  judicial
  department shall, and the presiding justice of the appellate division of
  the  third  and  fourth  judicial  departments  may  assign  one or more
  justices of the supreme court to sit at such offices  of  the  board  of
  elections  and  such  other  locations  as may be designated to hear and
  determine all cases arising under this chapter relating  to  eligibility
  for voting of such election.