STATE OF NEW YORK
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2275
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 23, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to split shifts for
election inspectors or poll clerks
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 3-400 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 293 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 7. The board of elections may employ election inspectors or poll
5 clerks to work split shifts with adjusted compensation, provided, howev-
6 er, that there shall not be a time when the poll site is open that
7 there is not at least one inspector from each of the two major political
8 parties [is] present [at the poll site for the entire time that the
9 polls are open]. Each county board of elections shall prescribe the
10 necessary rules and procedures to ensure proper poll site operation,
11 including rules detailing the basis on which a request by an election
12 inspector or poll clerk to work a split shift may be denied.
13 § 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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