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                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
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 Introduced by M. of A. QUART -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LAVINE --
   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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01622-01-1

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 same  time  and at any time before the designation is made and certified
 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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.