Section 4-117. Check of registrants and information notice by mail

1. The
  board of elections, between August first and August fifth of each  year,
  shall  send by first class mail on which is endorsed "ADDRESS CORRECTION
  REQUESTED" and which contains a request that any such mail received  for
  persons  not  residing  at  the  address  be dropped back in the mail, a
  communication, in a form approved by the state board  of  elections,  to
  every  registered  voter  who  has  been  registered without a change of
  address since the beginning of such  year,  except  that  the  board  of
  elections shall not be required to send such communications to voters in
  inactive  status.  The  communication shall notify the voter of the days
  and hours of the ensuing primary and general elections, the place  where
  he  appears by his registration records to be entitled to vote, the fact
  that voters who have moved or will have moved  from  the  address  where
  they  were last registered must re-register or, that if such move was to
  another address in the same county or city, that such voter  may  either
  notify the board of elections of his new address or vote by paper ballot
  at  the  polling  place  for  his new address even if such voter has not
  re-registered, or otherwise notified  the  board  of  elections  of  the
  change  of address. If the location of the polling place for the voter's
  election district has been moved, the communication  shall  contain  the
  following legend in bold type: "YOUR POLLING PLACE HAS BEEN CHANGED. YOU
  NOW  VOTE  AT..........".  The communication shall also indicate whether
  the polling place is accessible to physically disabled  voters,  that  a
  voter who will be out of the city or county on the day of the primary or
  general election or a voter who is ill or physically disabled may obtain
  an absentee ballot, that a physically disabled voter whose polling place
  is  not  accessible may request that his registration record be moved to
  an election district which has a polling place which is accessible,  the
  phone  number  to call for applications to move a registration record or
  for absentee ballot applications, the  phone  number  to  call  for  the
  location of registration and polling places, the phone number to call to
  indicate  that  the  voter  is  willing  to  serve on election day as an
  election inspector, poll clerk, interpreter or in other capacities,  the
  phone  number to call to obtain an application for registration by mail,
  and such other information concerning the elections or  registration  as
  the  board  may  include. In lieu of sending such communication to every
  registered voter, the board of elections may send a single communication
  to a household containing more than one registered voter, provided  that
  the  names  of  all  such  voters  appear as part of the address on such
  communication.
    2. Whenever a ballot proposal is to be submitted  to  the  people  for
  approval  at  any  election,  the  board  of elections may send to every
  registered voter, by the same mail containing the communication required
  by this section, a copy of the abstract of such ballot proposal.
    3. Each year, in the month of December,  the  commissioners  of  every
  local  board  of elections shall file with the state board of elections,
  on a form provided therefor by such state  board,  a  statement  setting
  forth  the  approximate  number of communications mailed pursuant to the
  requirements  of  this  section  and  the  approximate  number  of  such
  communications  returned  by  the  post  office. Such statement shall be
  sworn or subscribed to and bear a form notice that false statements made
  therein are punishable as a class  A  misdemeanor  pursuant  to  section
  210.45  of  the  penal law. The failure of a local board of elections to
  file such a certificate in any year, within the time  prescribed,  shall
  create  a  presumption  that  such  board of elections did not mail such
  communications in such year. Not later than January thirty-first of each
  year, the state board of elections shall publish  a  chart  listing,  by
  county,  the  numbers contained in the certificates required to be filed

  by each local board of  elections  in  December  of  the  previous  year
  pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision.