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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:

  Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 5 of section 3-404  of  the  election
law, subdivisions 1 and 5 as amended by chapter 263 of the laws of 1991,
are amended to read as follows:
  1.  The  board  of  elections  of  each  county shall on or before the
fifteenth day of [July] APRIL of each year select and  appoint  election
inspectors  and poll clerks for each election district therein, and such
number of election coordinators as it determines to  be  necessary,  and
may thereafter select and designate election inspectors, poll clerks and
election  coordinators  to  fill any vacancy for an unexpired term.  The
term of such designation shall be for a term ending  on  the  fourteenth
day of [July] APRIL of the following year. If the election districts for
a  general  or  special  village  election  conducted  by  the  board of
elections are coterminous with the election  districts  established  for
general  elections,  such election inspectors and poll clerks shall also
serve at such village elections. If the election districts  for  such  a
village  election  are  not so coterminous, the board of elections shall
select the inspectors and poll clerks to  serve  in  each  such  village
election  district  from among the inspectors and poll clerks appointed,
pursuant to the provisions of this section, for  any  election  district
wholly or partly in such village.
  2.  Each  political  party  entitled to representation on any board of
elections may, not later than the first day of [May] APRIL in each year,
file with the appropriate  board  of  elections,  an  original  list  of
persons  recommended  to serve.   Supplemental lists may be filed at the
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
              

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or  when  a  vacancy  exists.  All designations shall be made first from
those named in the original list filed if  those  designated  are  found
qualified.   IF A PERSON HAS BEEN LISTED ON THE ORIGINAL OR SUPPLEMENTAL
LIST  FOR  THREE  CONSECUTIVE  YEARS  AND  HAS NOT SERVED AS AN ELECTION
INSPECTOR, POLL CLERK OR ELECTION COORDINATOR DURING THOSE THREE  YEARS,
THEN  THE  POLITICAL PARTY SUBMITTING THE LIST SHALL OBTAIN AND SUBMIT A
WRITTEN AFFIRMATION FROM THE PERSON STATING THAT THEY  ARE  WILLING  AND
AVAILABLE  TO  SERVE  AS  AN  ELECTION INSPECTOR, POLL CLERK OR ELECTION
COORDINATOR.  IF THE POLITICAL PARTY DOES  NOT  SUBMIT  SUCH  A  WRITTEN
AFFIRMATION ALONG WITH THE LIST, THEN SUCH PERSON SHALL BE STRICKEN FROM
THE ORIGINAL AND SUPPLEMENTAL LISTS.
  5.  If a political party shall fail to submit a list or the list shall
be exhausted, the board of elections shall request from the  appropriate
political  party  an original or supplemental list. If after ten days no
list is filed by that party, the board of elections [may] SHALL  appoint
qualified  persons,  enrolled members of the political party in default,
to act as election inspectors, poll clerks or election coordinators.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.