What's happening
This bill requires county boards of elections to meet new minimum staffing levels based on the number of active registered voters.
Why it matters
Increases consistency and reliability of election administration. by setting baseline staffing levels across counties, potentially reducing errors or delays caused by understaffing at local boards of elections.
Links staffing requirements directly to voter population size,. ensuring that counties with larger numbers of active registered voters are better equipped to handle higher workloads, which could improve voter services and election integrity.
Mandates phased compliance with new staffing minimums,. giving under-resourced counties up to three years to reach the required staff levels, which balances the need for improved administration with local budget or hiring constraints.
May impact local budgets and resource allocation,. as counties will need to ensure funding is available for additional full-time employees, possibly leading to increased local government spending or shifts in budget priorities.
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Require More Election Staff
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21 Co-sponsors
History
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Print number 6069a
- Amend (t) and recommit to election law
- Referred to election law
- Referred to election law
Companion bill
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Set Election Staffing Minimums
In Senate Committee · Elections · Sponsor Rachel May
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6069--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 26, 2025
Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER, RAMOS, WOERNER, ZINERMAN, PAULIN, GALLAGHER, LUNSFORD, REYES, DE LOS SANTOS, SHRESTHA, McMAHON, KELLES, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, LUPARDO, TAYLOR, TAPIA, ROSENTHAL, SAYEGH, SIMONE, DAVILA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law -recommitted to the Committee on Election Law in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to establishing minimum staffing levels for certain local board of elections
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, 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 technicians, 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 of a county that includes over ten thousand active registered voters shall employ, at a minimum, four full-time employees inclusive of any full-time commissioners and full-time deputies. Every board of elections shall employ two additional employees for every full allotment of twenty thousand active registered voters under its jurisdiction. Any board of elections below the minimum number of employees required by this subdivision shall hire two additional fulltime employees annually until the minimum requirement is met, provided that the minimum requirement is met within three years of the effective date of this subdivision.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03492-02-6
3. Every commissioner in each board of elections except for commissioners 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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