N.Y. Elec. Law § 7-120

§ 7-120. Ballots; emergency use, to be furnished. 1. If any voting\nmachine for use in any election shall become out of order during an\nelection it shall, if possible, be repaired or another machine\nsubstituted as promptly as possible. In case such repair or\nsubstitution cannot be made, emergency ballots, printed or written, and\nof any suitable form, may be used for the taking of votes.\n 2. If the official ballots for an election district shall not be\ndelivered within the time necessary to open the polls, or shall be lost,\ndestroyed or stolen, or if the supply of official ballots shall be\nexhausted before the polls are closed, the board of elections, or at its\ndirection, the town or city clerk, or the election inspectors of such\ndistrict, shall cause emergency ballots to be prepared, printed or\nwritten, as nearly in the form of the official ballots as practicable.\nThe inspectors shall use the ballots so substituted in the same manner,\nas near as may be, as the official ballots.\n 3. It shall be the duty of each board of elections to cause a\nsufficient number of emergency ballots to be placed at each polling\nplace in which voting machines are used to be employed in the event the\nvoting machines break down. At any time during the hour succeeding a\nbreakdown, the inspectors of election may use such emergency ballots,\nand if such breakdown lasts more than one hour, such emergency ballots\nmust be used. The sample ballots may be used for this purpose in full or\nreduced size.\n