§ 2016. Review of registration procedure by supreme court or county\njudge. 1. The supreme court or a justice thereof, or the county judge\nwithin the county in which the school district is wholly or partly\nsituated, in a proceeding instituted by any qualified voter who, at the\nmeeting of the board of registration provided for in section two\nthousand fourteen, made to the board of registration satisfactory proof\nthat he was or would be entitled to vote at the meeting or election for\nwhich the board of registration was at such meeting convened to prepare\na register, and to whom such registration had been refused by such board\nof registration shall, by order, compel the registration of such voter;\nand in a proceeding instituted by any qualified voter shall by order\ndirect to be stricken from the register any names unlawfully thereon,\nand shall order such board of registration, if necessary, to reconvene\nfor such purposes not less than two nor more than four days before the\nday of the meeting or election. Written notice of an application under\nthis section must be given to the board of registration, by service\nthereof on two of the members thereof.\n 2. Such court, justice or judge in a proceeding instituted by any\nqualified voter whose application to vote has been denied by the\ninspectors of election shall compel by order the reception of the vote\nwithin the hours established by law.\n 3. An affidavit by any officer or employee of the board of education\nor any police officer, sheriff or deputy sheriff that he or she visited\nthe premises claimed by the applicant as his or her residence, and that\nhe or she interrogated an incarcerated individual, housedweller, keeper\nor caretaker, owner, proprietor, or landlord thereof or therein, as to\nthe applicant's residence therein or thereat, and that he or she was\ninformed by one or more of such persons, naming them, that they knew the\npersons residing upon such premises and that the applicant did not\nreside upon such premises thirty days before the meeting or election\nshall be presumptive evidence against the right of the voter to register\nfrom such premises.\n
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