Section 7-116. Ballots; order of names on

1. In printing the names of
  candidates on the ballot, the candidate or candidates of the party which
  polled for its  candidate  for  the  office  of  governor  at  the  last
  preceding election for such office the highest number of votes, shall be
  row  or column A or one and the candidates of the other parties shall be
  placed on such ballot in descending order of such votes.
    2. The officer or  board  who  or  which  prepares  the  ballot  shall
  determine  the  order  in  which  shall appear, below the names of party
  candidates the nominations made only by independent bodies. Such officer
  or board also shall determine the order in which shall be printed, in  a
  section  of such ballot the names of two or more candidates nominated by
  one party or independent body, for  an  office  to  which  two  or  more
  persons  are  to  be elected; provided, however, that any such candidate
  may, by a writing filed with such board or officer not  later  than  one
  week  after  the  adjournment  of  the  convention or one week after the
  primary election nominating him, or otherwise not later  than  two  days
  after  the  filing of the petition or certificate nominating him, demand
  that such order be determined by lot, and in that case such order  shall
  be  so  determined,  upon two days notice by mail given by such board or
  officer to each candidate for such office. The state board of  elections
  shall  perform  the  duties  required  by  this subdivision in all cases
  affecting nominations filed in its office.
    3. The officer or board with whom or which are filed the  designations
  for  a  public office or party position shall determine by lot, upon two
  days notice by mail given by such board or officer to each candidate for
  such office or position and to the  committee,  if  any,  named  in  the
  designating  petition,  the  order  in  which  shall  be  printed on the
  official primary ballot, under the title of the office or position,  the
  names  of  candidates  for  public office, the names of candidates for a
  party position to which not more than one person is to be  elected,  and
  the  groups  of names of candidates for party position where two or more
  persons are to be elected thereto and any  petition  designates  two  or
  more  persons therefor, provided, however, that whenever groups of names
  for more than one party position are designated by  the  same  petition,
  the  order in which they shall be printed on the official primary ballot
  shall be  determined  by  a  single  lot.  Candidates  for  delegate  or
  delegates  and alternate delegate or delegates to conventions designated
  by the same petition shall, for the  purpose  of  this  subdivision,  be
  treated  as  one  group.  The  names  of candidates, if any, for a party
  position to which two or  more  persons  are  to  be  elected,  who  are
  designated  by  individual petitions and not in a group shall be printed
  below such group or groups, in such order between  themselves,  as  such
  officer  or  board  shall  determine by lot upon the notice specified in
  this subdivision.  The names within a group of candidates designated for
  party position by one petition shall be printed in  the  same  order  in
  which  they  appear  in  the petition, unless they appear in a different
  order on different pages of the petition,  in  which  case  their  order
  within  the  group  shall  be determined by such officer or board by lot
  upon the notice specified in this subdivision. Candidates for members of
  a state committee  designated  by  a  single  petition  shall,  for  the
  purposes  of  this  subdivision,  be  treated as one group. However, the
  notice to a committee of the drawing need not be  mailed  to  more  than
  five  members,  if  there  be  that  many,  and  as  to offices or party
  positions for which designating petitions are filed with  the  board  of
  elections  of  the  city  of  New  York the notice shall be given to the
  committees only.
    3-a. The state board of elections shall prescribe the method,  or  two
  or  more  alternative  methods,  for  making  the  determinations by lot

  required by subdivisions two and three  of  this  section.  Each  county
  board  of elections shall adopt one of such methods at least ninety days
  before any election to which such method shall apply.
    4.  If  a  vacancy  in a designation or nomination be filled after the
  making, in the manner provided in this section, of  a  determination  of
  the  order  in  which the names of candidates for the office or position
  are to be printed, the name of the candidate designated or nominated  to
  fill  such  vacancy  shall be printed in the place so determined for the
  original candidate.
    5. The titles of public offices shall appear on  ballots  for  primary
  elections  in  the  same  consecutive order that they will appear on the
  general election ballot. The titles of the party positions shall  appear
  in  the  following  order:  member of state committee, assembly district
  leader, associate assembly district leader, members of county  committee
  in the city of New York, delegate or delegates to conventions, alternate
  delegate or delegates to conventions, and members of county committee in
  counties  outside  of the city of New York. Where, pursuant to the rules
  of the county committee, the party position involved is that of assembly
  district leader or associate assembly district leader for a part  of  an
  assembly  district,  such part shall be so indicated in the title on the
  ballot.
    6. In the city of New York, the  ballot  on  the  voting  machine  for
  primary elections shall conform to the following additional provisions:
    The names of the candidates designated for such public office or party
  position  in  the  primary of a party shall be placed under the title of
  the office or position in the alphabetical order of their  surnames,  in
  the  first or lowest numbered assembly district and election district of
  any political unit or subdivision  within  a  county.    If  candidates'
  surnames  are identical, their given or first name shall determine their
  order.  Thereafter the names shall be rotated by election  districts  by
  transposing the first named candidate to the bottom of the order at each
  succeeding  election  district, so that each name shall appear first and
  in each other position in an equal number, as nearly as possible, of the
  election  districts  and  except,  further,  that  where  two  or   more
  candidates  are  to  be elected to the same party position, the names of
  candidates for such a position which  appear  on  the  same  designating
  petition  shall  be grouped together on the ballot in the order in which
  their names appear on the designating petition  and  the  group  rotated
  alphabetically  in  relation  to  other  groups or individual candidates
  according to the surname of the first person on the designating petition
  of such  group.    Groups  of  candidates  for  delegate  and  alternate
  delegate, and groups of candidates for male and female delegate and male
  and  female  alternate delegate to the same convention designated on the
  same petition shall be rotated together alphabetically  in  relation  to
  other  groups  or  individual candidates according to the surname of the
  first person listed  on  such  designating  petition  in  the  group  of
  candidates   for  whichever  of  such  delegate  or  alternate  delegate
  positions will appear first on the voting machine. If  the  rules  of  a
  party  committee provide for equal representation of the sexes among the
  members of a state committee   elected from each unit of representation,
  elections for male and female members of such a committee from a  single
  unit of representation shall be conducted as elections for two different
  party  positions.  Notwithstanding  the provisions of this paragraph, if
  the board of elections has assigned numbers to  the  candidates  for  an
  office  or  position  because  of  identical or similar names among such
  candidates, the names of such candidates shall be placed under the title
  of such office or position in the order of such numbers in such first or
  lowest numbered district, and the names shall not be rotated by election

  district. Such names shall appear in the identical order on each  ballot
  in each election district.
    County  committee  candidates or groups of candidates shall be printed
  within the first election district of each  assembly  district  or  part
  thereof,  according  to  the priority of filing of designating petitions
  and they shall then be rotated  by  election  district  by  placing  the
  candidate  or group of candidates designated in the same petition as the
  candidate or group of candidates which was printed first in an  election
  district  at  the  bottom  of  the order in the next succeeding election
  district in which a candidate or group of candidates designated in  such
  petition appears on the ballot.
    In  cases where a name is added to or removed from the ballot by court
  order too late to make  a  complete  adjustment  to  these  requirements
  feasible,  the name may be added at the bottom of the list of candidates
  in all election districts, or removed from the ballot  in  all  election
  districts  without changing the previously arranged order of other names
  and without invalidating the election.   Any inadvertent  error  in  the
  order  of names discovered too late to correct the order of the names on
  the ballots concerned shall not invalidate an election.
    Except where a contest or candidate is  removed  from  the  ballot  by
  court  order  too  late  to make complete compliance with this paragraph
  feasible, the title of each public office  or  party  position  and  the
  names  of  the  candidates  for such office or position appearing on any
  voting machine used for primary elections in the city of New York  shall
  appear  on  such  machine  immediately  adjacent  to one another, either
  horizontally or vertically; and no blank spaces shall separate the names
  of candidates actually running for an office or party position  on  such
  voting  machine, and no blank spaces shall separate any two such offices
  or positions which appear on such voting machine in the same  column  or
  row.