Section 5-712. Confirmation notices

1. The board of elections shall send a
  confirmation  notice  by  forwardable  first  class  or  return  postage
  guaranteed mail to every registered voter or applicant for registration,
  at the address at which the voter is registered or the  address  on  the
  application  for  registration,  when  any  mail  sent  to such voter or
  applicant is returned as undeliverable by the postal service without any
  indication of a forwarding address and to any voter for whom notice that
  the voter has moved without leaving a forwarding  address,  is  received
  from  the  United  States  Postal Service through the National Change of
  Address System.
    2. (a) The board of elections shall also send a confirmation notice to
  every registered voter for whom  it  receives  a  notice  of  change  of
  address  to an address not in such city or county which is not signed by
  the voter.  Such change of address notices shall  include,  but  not  be
  limited   to,   notices  of  change  of  address  received  pursuant  to
  subdivision eleven of section 5-211 and subdivision six of section 5-212
  of this article, notice of change of  address  from  the  United  States
  Postal Service through the National Change of Address System or from any
  other  agency  of  the  federal government or any agency of any state or
  local government and notice of a forwarding address on mail  sent  to  a
  voter by the board of elections and returned by the postal service. Such
  confirmation notices shall be sent to such new address.
    (b)  If a notice sent pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision to
  the voter at the new address is returned as undeliverable, the board  of
  elections  shall  send  another  such notice to the address at which the
  voter was originally registered.
    3. Such notices shall be in a form prescribed by the  state  board  of
  elections  and  shall  include  a  postage-paid return card on which the
  voter may confirm the fact that he still resides at the address to which
  the notice was sent, or notify the board of any change of address.  Such
  notices  shall  request  all voters who receive the notice to reply with
  their current addresses. Such  notices  shall  request  all  voters  who
  receive the notice to reply with their current addresses and shall state
  that  voters  who  have not moved or who have moved within the county or
  city and who do not respond may be required to vote by affidavit  ballot
  and  that  if  they  do not vote in any election up to and including the
  second federal election after such notice, their  registrations  may  be
  cancelled.   Such notices sent to addresses in New York state shall also
  include a mail registration form and information on how voters who  have
  moved to a different city or county may reregister.
    4.  No  such  confirmation notices shall be sent between June first in
  any year and the date of the general election in such  year  or  in  the
  ninety  days  before  a spring primary election except that such notices
  shall be sent  forthwith  to  persons  for  whom  an  acknowledgment  of
  acceptance  of registration sent pursuant to subdivision nine of section
  5-210 of  this  article  is  returned  to  the  board  of  elections  as
  undeliverable  and  to  every  registered  voter  for  whom the board of
  elections receives a notice of change of address described in  paragraph
  a  of  subdivision two of this section to an address not in such city or
  county.
    5. All voters or applicants to whom a  confirmation  notice  is  sent,
  pursuant to the provisions of this section, shall forthwith be placed in
  inactive status.