Bill Text: NY A04604 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the appointment of election inspectors and poll clerks; requires the board of elections of each county to make appointments by April 15 of each year; provides that a person listed on an original or supplemental list of eligible persons to serve as election inspectors or poll clerks for three consecutive years must submit a written affirmation of willingness and availability to serve.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to election law [A04604 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A04604-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4604
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 6, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. QUART -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Election Law
       AN ACT to amend the election law, in  relation  to  the  appointment  of
         election inspectors and poll clerks
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 5 of section 3-404  of  the  election
    2  law, subdivisions 1 and 5 as amended by chapter 263 of the laws of 1991,
    3  are amended to read as follows:
    4    1.  The  board  of  elections  of  each  county shall on or before the
    5  fifteenth day of [July] APRIL of each year select and  appoint  election
    6  inspectors  and poll clerks for each election district therein, and such
    7  number of election coordinators as it determines to  be  necessary,  and
    8  may thereafter select and designate election inspectors, poll clerks and
    9  election  coordinators  to  fill any vacancy for an unexpired term.  The
   10  term of such designation shall be for a term ending  on  the  fourteenth
   11  day of [July] APRIL of the following year. If the election districts for
   12  a  general  or  special  village  election  conducted  by  the  board of
   13  elections are coterminous with the election  districts  established  for
   14  general  elections,  such election inspectors and poll clerks shall also
   15  serve at such village elections. If the election districts  for  such  a
   16  village  election  are  not so coterminous, the board of elections shall
   17  select the inspectors and poll clerks to  serve  in  each  such  village
   18  election  district  from among the inspectors and poll clerks appointed,
   19  pursuant to the provisions of this section, for  any  election  district
   20  wholly or partly in such village.
   21    2.  Each  political  party  entitled to representation on any board of
   22  elections may, not later than the first day of [May] APRIL in each year,
   23  file with the appropriate  board  of  elections,  an  original  list  of
   24  persons  recommended  to serve.   Supplemental lists may be filed at the
   25  same time and at any time before the designation is made  and  certified
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07750-01-3
       A. 4604                             2
    1  or  when  a  vacancy  exists.  All designations shall be made first from
    2  those named in the original list filed if  those  designated  are  found
    3  qualified.   IF A PERSON HAS BEEN LISTED ON THE ORIGINAL OR SUPPLEMENTAL
    4  LIST  FOR  THREE  CONSECUTIVE  YEARS  AND  HAS NOT SERVED AS AN ELECTION
    5  INSPECTOR, POLL CLERK OR ELECTION COORDINATOR DURING THOSE THREE  YEARS,
    6  THEN  THE  POLITICAL PARTY SUBMITTING THE LIST SHALL OBTAIN AND SUBMIT A
    7  WRITTEN AFFIRMATION FROM THE PERSON STATING THAT THEY  ARE  WILLING  AND
    8  AVAILABLE  TO  SERVE  AS  AN  ELECTION INSPECTOR, POLL CLERK OR ELECTION
    9  COORDINATOR.  IF THE POLITICAL PARTY DOES  NOT  SUBMIT  SUCH  A  WRITTEN
   10  AFFIRMATION ALONG WITH THE LIST, THEN SUCH PERSON SHALL BE STRICKEN FROM
   11  THE ORIGINAL AND SUPPLEMENTAL LISTS.
   12    5.  If a political party shall fail to submit a list or the list shall
   13  be exhausted, the board of elections shall request from the  appropriate
   14  political  party  an original or supplemental list. If after ten days no
   15  list is filed by that party, the board of elections [may] SHALL  appoint
   16  qualified  persons,  enrolled members of the political party in default,
   17  to act as election inspectors, poll clerks or election coordinators.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.