§ 3-220. Records and photostats; preservation and sale. 1. All\nregistration records, certificates, lists, and inventories referred to\nin, or required by, this chapter shall be public records and open to\npublic inspection under the immediate supervision of the board of\nelections or its employees and subject to such reasonable regulations as\nsuch board may impose, provided, however, that a voter's driver's\nlicense number, department of motor vehicle non-driver photo ID number,\nsocial security number and facsimile number shall not be released for\npublic inspection. No such records shall be handled at any time by any\nperson other than a member of a registration board or board of\ninspectors of elections or board of elections except as provided by\nrules imposed by the board of elections.\n 2. The central file registration records shall be kept in locked\nfiling cabinets in the office of the board of elections or, in the\nappropriate branch offices of the board of elections. Such records shall\nbe taken from such file and handled only where necessary to make entries\nthereon or take other action in connection therewith as required by this\narticle. The board of elections may cause to be made, photostatic copy\nor copies of the registration poll records of registered voters in any\nelection district and shall cause such photostatic copies to be placed\nin one or more ledgers in the same manner and in the same order as the\noriginal registration poll records appear in the ledger or ledgers\ncontaining the registration poll records for such election district.\nSuch photostatic records shall be open to public inspection, in lieu of\nthe original registration records.\n 3. Registration records which have been mutilated or voided or which,\nfollowing the refusal of a board taking registrations to permit an\napplicant to register, have been marked "Refused" shall be retained by\nthe board of elections for at least two years. Upon destruction of any\nsuch records the board shall keep a file of the serial numbers of the\nrecords so destroyed. Reports of deaths shall be retained by the board\nof elections for two years. In January of each year, the board of\nelections may remove from its files and may destroy the check cards of\npersons whose registrations were cancelled more than two years\npreviously.\n 4. Subsequent to the expiration of ten years after the receipt thereof\nor, in the case of registration records, subsequent to the expiration of\ntwo years after cancellation of the registration to which they relate,\nthe board of elections, in lieu of preserving any of the records as\nhereinbefore provided, may preserve photostatic, microphotographic or\nphotographic film copies thereof, and may destroy the original records\nand is authorized to do so in accordance with the provisions of article\nthirteen of the state finance law. If the board of elections maintains a\ncomputer readable registration record for each registered voter, which\nincludes a copy of the entire registration poll record or application\nfor registration of each such voter, the original poll record or\napplication for registration may, with the permission of the state board\nof elections, be so destroyed subsequent to the expiration of two years\nafter such copy is entered in the computer readable record. If such\ncopies in the computer readable record do not include the backs of those\nregistration poll records which have been used at one or more elections,\nthen all such poll records which have been used at one or more elections\nmay, with the permission of the state board of elections, be so\ndestroyed subsequent to the expiration of two years after such copy is\nentered in the computer readable record, or subsequent to the expiration\nof four years after the last election at which such poll record was\nused, whichever is later.\n 5. Any such photostatic, microphotographic or photographic film copy\nmade pursuant to this section or any such computer r
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