STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1878 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee 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. LBD05411-01-1