Section 8-404. Absentee voting; hospitalized veterans, special provisions

1. After entering upon the registration  records,  the  application  for
  registration  of  an  inmate  or  patient  of a veterans' administration
  hospital as to whom the medical superintendent or medical head  of  such
  hospital  has  attested  that  he expects that he will not be discharged
  prior to the day following the next general or special village, primary,
  special, general or New York city community  school  board  district  or
  city  of  Buffalo  school  district  election,  and  the application for
  registration by the spouse, parent or child of such inmate  or  patient,
  accompanying  or  being  with  him  or  her,  if a qualified voter and a
  resident of the same election district, the board of elections,  without
  further  investigation and without further application by the applicant,
  shall send to him at such hospital an absentee ballot and  shall  record
  in   the  signature  column  on  the  back  of  his  permanent  personal
  registration poll record that such ballot has been sent.
    (a) Any voter who is duly registered and  whose  registration  records
  are  marked  "Hospitalized Veteran" or "Hospitalized Veteran's Relative"
  need not thereafter make application for an absentee ballot. Sixty  days
  before  each  election,  the board of elections shall compile and send a
  list to each  veterans'  administration  hospital  of  all  inmates  and
  patients of veterans' administration hospitals who appear by the records
  of such board to be "hospitalized veterans" entitled to receive absentee
  ballots  at  each  such  hospital  pursuant  to  the  provisions of this
  section. Each veterans' administration  hospital  shall  no  later  than
  fifteen  days  following  the  receipt  of  such  list,  return  it with
  notations made thereon showing whether the inmate or  patient  continues
  to  be  confined  therein  or  has  been  discharged therefrom. Upon the
  receipt  of  such  returned  list  from  each  veterans'  administration
  hospital with the proper notations showing that a "hospitalized veteran"
  continues  to  be  confined in such hospital, the board of elections, by
  mail addressed to such "hospitalized veteran" at his last known hospital
  address and by mail addressed to such "hospitalized veteran's  relative"
  at  his last known address shall send an absentee ballot for the ensuing
  election to such "hospitalized veteran" and such "hospitalized veteran's
  relative" an absentee ballot in the same manner as provided herein for a
  qualified voter entitled to an  absentee  ballot  because  of  permanent
  disability.  The board shall record on the back of his registration poll
  record in the space reserved for his signature  at  such  election,  the
  fact that such ballot has been sent.
    (b)  If  the  returned  list  from a veterans' administration hospital
  contains a notation showing that a "hospitalized veteran" is  no  longer
  an  inmate  or patient at the veterans' administration hospital where he
  is recorded as staying, or if such letter containing an absentee voter's
  ballot  for  a  "hospitalized  veteran"  or  a  "hospitalized  veterans'
  relative"  is returned by the post office as undeliverable, the board of
  elections  shall  ascertain  whether  the  "hospitalized   veteran"   or
  "hospitalized  veteran's  relative"  is residing at the address given on
  his registration records as his permanent address.  If  he  is  residing
  there,  the board shall not send him any further absentee ballots unless
  he applies therefor in the regular way. If he is  not  residing  at  the
  place  of  residence  given  on  his  registration records but the board
  ascertains  that  he  has  been   transferred   to   another   veterans'
  administration  hospital,  the  board  shall  cause  a  central board of
  registration to make the necessary changes of temporary address  on  his
  registration  records and shall continue sending him absentee ballots at
  the veterans' administration hospital where he is staying. If he is  not
  residing at the place of residence given on his registration records and
  the  board  cannot  ascertain  that  he  has been transferred to another

  veterans'  administration  hospital,  the   board   shall   cancel   his
  registration.    Whenever  a  registration  is cancelled pursuant hereto
  notice shall be mailed to the veteran or his relative at  his  permanent
  residence address and last temporary address.
    2.  The board of elections shall furnish to each party county chairman
  in such county a list of  the  names  and  residence  addresses  of  the
  hospitalized  veterans  and  hospitalized  veterans'  relatives  to whom
  absentee ballots have been sent.
    3. Such  ballots  shall  be  mailed,  voted,  returned,  counted,  and
  canvassed  as  provided  in  this  chapter  for  other  absentee voters'
  ballots.