Requires every board of elections to employ a minimum of four full time employees in addition to the appointed commissioners within four years and shall employ two of those full time employees within two years; and two additional employees for every twenty thousand active registered voters beyond forty thousand active registered voters.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6069
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 26, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER, RAMOS, WOERNER, ZINERMAN, PAULIN,
GALLAGHER, LUNSFORD, REYES, DE LOS SANTOS, SHRESTHA, McMAHON, KELLES,
MAMDANI, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, LUPARDO, TAYLOR, TAPIA, ROSENTHAL, SAYEGH,
SIMONE, DAVILA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election
Law
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:
Section 1. Section 3-300 of the election law is amended to read as
follows:
§ 3-300. Board employees; appointment. 1. Every board of elections
shall appoint, and at its pleasure remove, clerks, voting machine tech-
nicians, custodians and other employees, fix their number, prescribe
their duties, fix their titles and rank and establish their salaries
within the amounts appropriated therefor by the local legislative body
and shall secure in the appointment of employees of the board of
elections equal representation of the major political parties.
2. EVERY BOARD OF ELECTIONS SHALL EMPLOY, AT A MINIMUM, FOUR FULL
TIME EMPLOYEES IN ADDITION TO THE APPOINTED COMMISSIONERS, WITHIN FOUR
YEARS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT
EVERY BOARD OF ELECTIONS SHALL EMPLOY AT LEAST TWO FULL TIME EMPLOYEES
WITHIN TWO YEARS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SUBDIVISION. EVERY BOARD
OF ELECTIONS SHALL EMPLOY TWO ADDITIONAL EMPLOYEES FOR EVERY FULL ALLOT-
MENT OF TWENTY THOUSAND ACTIVE REGISTERED VOTERS BEYOND FORTY THOUSAND
ACTIVE REGISTERED VOTERS.
3. Every commissioner in each board of elections except for commis-
sioners of the board of elections of the city of New York, may approve
and at pleasure remove a deputy, establish [his] THEIR title and
prescribe [his] THEIR duties. In the city of New York, the board of
elections shall appoint an executive director and a deputy executive
director whose duties it shall be to supervise the operations of the
board of elections under the supervision of such board.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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