Requires every board of elections to employ a minimum of four full time employees in addition to the appointed commissioners 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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6684--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 12, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
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. Every board of elections shall
4 appoint, and at its pleasure remove, clerks, voting machine technicians,
5 custodians and other employees, fix their number, prescribe their
6 duties, fix their titles and rank and establish their salaries within
7 the amounts appropriated therefor by the local legislative body and
8 shall secure in the appointment of employees of the board of elections
9 equal representation of the major political parties. Every board of
10 elections shall employ, at a minimum, four full time employees in addi-
11 tion to the appointed commissioners. Each board of elections shall
12 employ two additional employees for every full allotment of twenty thou-
13 sand active registered voters beyond forty thousand active registered
14 voters. Every commissioner in each board of elections except for commis-
15 sioners of the board of elections of the city of New York, may approve
16 and at pleasure remove a deputy, establish his title and prescribe his
17 duties. In the city of New York, the board of elections shall appoint an
18 executive director and a deputy executive director whose duties it shall
19 be to supervise the operations of the board of elections under the
20 supervision of such board.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11388-02-1
