STATE OF NEW YORK
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5933
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 25, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. R. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to allowing poll workers
to be from any political party
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 3-400 of the election law, as
2 renumbered by chapter 9 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. Appointments to the offices of election inspector or poll clerk in
5 each election district, shall be equally divided between the major poli-
6 tical parties. In the event that a major political party does not have
7 enough qualified applicants to be an election inspector or poll clerk in
8 a county or within the city of New York, appointments to the offices of
9 election inspector or poll clerk shall be qualified applicants which are
10 not a member of another major political party such that the least number
11 of such election inspectors or poll clerks are appointed in each
12 election district.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
14 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
15 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
16 sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
17 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07646-01-5
