It shall be unlawful for any person to:
No part of any appropriation made by any act of congress or of the legislature, heretofore or hereafter enacted, making appropriations for work relief, relief, or otherwise to increase employment by providing loans and grants for public works projects, shall be used, and no authority conferred by any such act upon any person shall be exercised or administered, for the purpose of interfering with, restraining or coercing any individual in the exercise of his right to vote and to vote as he may choose at any election.
Any person who violates any of the foregoing provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
N.Y. Elec. Law § 17-154