Requires every board of elections to employ a minimum of four full time employees in addition to the appointed commissioners within four years and shall employ two of those full time employees within two years; and two additional employees for every twenty thousand active registered voters beyond forty thousand active registered voters.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6069
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 26, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER, RAMOS, WOERNER, ZINERMAN, PAULIN,
GALLAGHER, LUNSFORD, REYES, DE LOS SANTOS, SHRESTHA, McMAHON, KELLES,
MAMDANI, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, LUPARDO, TAYLOR, TAPIA, ROSENTHAL, SAYEGH,
SIMONE, DAVILA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election
Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to establishing minimum
staffing levels for local board of elections
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3-300 of the election law is amended to read as
2 follows:
3 § 3-300. Board employees; appointment. 1. Every board of elections
4 shall appoint, and at its pleasure remove, clerks, voting machine tech-
5 nicians, custodians and other employees, fix their number, prescribe
6 their duties, fix their titles and rank and establish their salaries
7 within the amounts appropriated therefor by the local legislative body
8 and shall secure in the appointment of employees of the board of
9 elections equal representation of the major political parties.
10 2. Every board of elections shall employ, at a minimum, four full
11 time employees in addition to the appointed commissioners, within four
12 years of the effective date of this subdivision; provided, however, that
13 every board of elections shall employ at least two full time employees
14 within two years of the effective date of this subdivision. Every board
15 of elections shall employ two additional employees for every full allot-
16 ment of twenty thousand active registered voters beyond forty thousand
17 active registered voters.
18 3. Every commissioner in each board of elections except for commis-
19 sioners of the board of elections of the city of New York, may approve
20 and at pleasure remove a deputy, establish [his] their title and
21 prescribe [his] their duties. In the city of New York, the board of
22 elections shall appoint an executive director and a deputy executive
23 director whose duties it shall be to supervise the operations of the
24 board of elections under the supervision of such board.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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