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2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 2 - Party Organization › 2-102 - State Committee; Creation.

§  2-102.  State  committee;  creation.  1.  The  members of the state
  committee  of  each  party  shall  be  elected  from   such   units   of
  representation  as the state committee shall by rule provide. The number
  of members representing each unit may vary, but  each  member  shall  be
  entitled  to  an  equal  vote  within his unit. Each member of the state
  committee shall be entitled to cast one vote unless  the  rules  of  the
  party shall provide otherwise.
2.  Each member shall be, at the time of his election and continuously
  thereafter, an enrolled member of the party and a resident of  the  unit
  from which he is elected except as hereinafter provided.
3.  To  be eligible for election as a member of the state committee at
  the first election next ensuing after a readjustment  or  alteration  of
  the  units  of  representation  becomes effective, a candidate must only
  have been a resident of the county  in  which  the  unit,  or  any  part
  thereof,  is  contained  for the twelve months immediately preceding the
  election.
4. When any rule of the state committee provides for representation by
  gender,  the  designating  petitions  and  primary  ballots  shall  list
  candidates  for  such  party  positions  separately by gender marker. In
  providing for such representation, the state committee  shall  establish
  rules that provide for the ability of individuals who do not exclusively
  identify as a binary gender to run for those positions and which respect
  individuals' gender identity.
5.  The  state  committee  may  provide  for  the  holding  of a state
  convention and the election of delegates and alternate delegates thereto
  in any year and may empower such convention to adopt party platforms and
  policies and to transact such other business as it may prescribe.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 2 - Party Organization › 2-106 - State and County Committees; Election of Members.

§ 2-106. State and county committees; election of members. 1.  Members
  of  the  state  and  county  committees  shall be elected at the primary
  election as herein provided.
2. Members of the state committee shall be elected biennially.
3. Members of county committees shall be  elected  biennially,  except
  that  to  effect  a  transition  from  either odd to even or even to odd
  number year elections, a county committee may provide by an amendment to
  its rules filed with the board of elections at least four months  before
  the  date  of  the  primary  election at which the two year term of such
  committee is expiring, that the committee elected at such election shall
  be elected for a single, interim  one-year  term  for  members  of  such
  committee. No committee may effect such a change in the year of election
  more than once every ten years.
4.  Members shall hold office until the next election at which members
  of the committee are elected.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 2 - Party Organization › 2-108 - State and County Committees; New Party.

§  2-108.  State and county committees; new party. The state committee
  and county committees of a new political party, which meet prior to  the
  first  primary  for  which  members  of  such  party  shall  have become
  enrolled, shall be formed as provided by the rules of such party.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 2 - Party Organization › 2-112 - Committees; Organization.

§  2-112.  Committees; organization. 1. Every committee shall meet and
organize by electing a chairman, a secretary, a treasurer and such other
officers as they may pursuant to their rules.
(a) Every  state  committee  shall  meet  no  earlier  than  September
seventeenth  and no later than October first following the June primary.
Until such organization meeting,  the  existing  state  committee  shall
exercise  all  legal authority. Upon the conclusion of such organization
meeting, the new state committee shall assume all legal authority vested
in the previously organized state committee.
(b) Every county  committee  shall  meet  no  earlier  than  September
seventeenth  and no later than October sixth following the June primary.
Until such organization meeting, the  existing  county  committee  shall
exercise  all  legal authority. Upon the conclusion of such organization
meeting, the new county  committee  shall  assume  all  legal  authority
vested in the previously organized county committee.
(c) All other committees shall meet within the time specified by party
rules.
(d)  Within  three days after their organization meeting all state and
county committees shall file  in  the  office  of  the  state  board  of
elections  a  certificate stating the names and post office addresses of
such officers. County  committees  and  any  other  committee  contained
therein  shall  file a copy of such statement with their county board of
elections.
2. Such officers shall be enrolled members of the party, but need  not
be members of such committees.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 2 - Party Organization › 2-114 - Committees; Rules Of.

§ 2-114. Committees; rules of. 1. Each committee may prepare rules for
  governing the party within its political unit. Within ten days after the
  adoption of any rule or amendment thereto a certified copy thereof shall
  be  filed  by  the  state  committee in the office of the state board of
  elections, and by the county committee in the office of the state  board
  of elections, and in the office of the board of elections of the county.
  If  a  section  or  portion  of  such  rules relate to the nomination of
  candidates for village office, such section or  portion  of  such  rules
  shall  be  filed  in  the office of the village clerk of all villages in
  which elections are conducted by the village  and  in  which  the  party
  makes  any  nominations for village office. No rule or amendment thereof
  shall be effective until the filing thereof in the office of  the  state
  board  of  elections.  Such rules shall continue to be the rules for the
  committee until they are amended or new rules adopted.
2. Rules may be amended or new rules adopted from time to  time  by  a
  majority  vote  of  the members of the committee present at a meeting at
  which there is a quorum, provided a copy of the proposed amendment shall
  be sent with the notice of the meeting at which such amendment is to  be
  proposed,  such  notice to be mailed not less than five days before such
  meeting to the post office address of each member of the committee.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 2 - Party Organization › 2-116 - Committee; Removal of Member.

§  2-116. Committee; removal of member. A member or officer of a party
  committee may be removed by such committee for disloyalty to  the  party
  or corruption in office after notice is given and a hearing upon written
  charges  has  been had. The hearing shall be held by the committee, or a
  subcommittee thereof appointed  for  that  purpose,  which  subcommittee
  shall report its findings to the full committee.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 2 - Party Organization › 2-118 - Committees; Vacancies, How Filled and Effect of Change of Boundaries.

§  2-118.  Committees;  vacancies,  how filled and effect of change of
  boundaries. 1. In the case of  the  death,  declination,  enrollment  in
  another  party, removal from the unit or removal from office of a member
  of a committee, or the failure  to  nominate  or  elect  a  member,  the
  vacancy  created thereby shall be filled by the remaining members of the
  committee by the selection of an enrolled voter of the  party  qualified
  for election from the unit of representation in which such vacancy shall
  have  occurred.  When a state committee fills a vacancy pursuant to this
  subdivision, the chairman or secretary of such committee  shall,  within
  ten days after such vacancy is filled, file a certificate with the state
  board  of  elections  setting  forth  the  name,  address,  and  unit of
  representation of the person so selected.
2. If the boundaries of any unit of representation  be  changed  after
  the  election  of  members  of  a  state  committee or assembly district
  leaders or associate assembly district leaders, the  terms  of  members,
  assembly district leaders or associate assembly district leaders elected
  in  such  units  of representation and the units of representation which
  such members, assembly district leaders or associate  assembly  district
  leaders  represent  shall  continue  until  the next regularly scheduled
  election for  such  party  positions  and  until  their  successors  are
  elected.
3.  The  county committee, upon its organization after the election of
  its members, or at any time thereafter, may determine that a vacancy  or
  vacancies  in  such  committee  exists  by  reason of an increase in the
  number of election districts within the county occasioned by a change of
  the boundaries of one or more election districts,  taking  effect  after
  such  election, and may determine the districts that the elected members
  shall represent until  the  next  election  at  which  members  of  such
  committee  are elected. A vacancy so determined to exist shall be filled
  as provided in subdivision one.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 2 - Party Organization › 2-122 - National Party Conventions; Delegates, Election.

§  2-122.  National  party conventions; delegates, election. Delegates
  and alternates to a national convention of a party shall be elected from
  congressional districts, or partly from the state at  large  and  partly
  from  congressional  districts,  as the rules of the state committee may
  provide. Such delegates and alternates from the state at large shall  be
  elected by the state committee or by a state convention of the party, as
  the  rules  of  the  state  committee shall prescribe. If the rules of a
  national party provide for  representation  by  gender  among  delegates
  elected  from  districts,  such  district  delegates  shall  be  elected
  separately by gender. District  delegates  and  alternates  to  national
  party conventions and delegates, and alternates, if any, to such a state
  convention  shall  be elected at a primary. All delegates and alternates
  to a national party convention shall be enrolled members of such  party.
  When   any   such  rule  provides  for  representation  by  gender,  the
  designating petitions and primary ballots shall list candidates for such
  party positions separately by  gender  marker.  In  providing  for  such
  representation,  the  party  shall  establish rules that provide for the
  ability of individuals who do  not  exclusively  identify  as  a  binary
  gender  to  serve  as  delegates  and  which respect individuals' gender
  identity.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 2 - Party Organization › 2-124 - Party Names and Emblems; Provision For.

§  2-124.  Party  names  and  emblems;  provision  for.  1.  The state
  committee of a party shall select a name and emblem to  distinguish  the
  candidates of the party for public office in all districts of the state,
  and  shall  file  in  the  office  of  the  state  board of elections, a
  certificate executed by its chairman and secretary,  setting  forth  the
  name and showing the emblem so selected.
2.  The name of a party shall be in the English language and shall not
  include the words "American", "United  States",  "National",  "New  York
  State",  "Independence"  or  "Independent",  or  "Empire  State", or any
  abbreviation or plural thereof, nor the name or part of the name, or  an
  abbreviation of the name, of an existing party. The emblem chosen may be
  a star, an animal, an anchor, or any other proper symbol, but may not be
  the  same  as or similar to any emblem, insignia, symbol or flag used by
  any political or governmental body, agency or entity nor  any  religious
  emblem,  insignia,  symbol  or flag, nor the portrait of any person, nor
  the representation of a coin or of the currency of  the  United  States.
  The  name  and emblem chosen shall not be similar to or likely to create
  confusion with the name  or  emblem  of  any  other  existing  party  or
  independent body.
3.  If  the name of any party shall contain more than fifteen letters,
  the state committee shall similarly select and  certify  an  abbreviated
  form  thereof, containing not more than fifteen letters, to be used upon
  the ballot whenever the necessities of space so require.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 1 - Statewide Provisions › 3-103 - Computerized Record Keeping; Sharing Information in Database.

§ 3-103. Computerized record keeping; sharing information in database.
  1.  The  state board of elections shall promulgate rules and regulations
  setting  minimum  standards  for  computerized  record  keeping  systems
  maintained  by county boards of elections. Such standards shall include,
  but not be limited to system access and security, the format and content
  of the data to be recorded and stored on such systems, and  the  minimum
  technical  specifications for computer programming. Such standards shall
  be for the purpose of facilitating  compatibility  between  the  systems
  used by the several boards of elections.
2.  The  state board of elections, in accordance with subdivision four
  of section 3-100 of this title, shall enter into an agreement  with  the
  commissioner  of motor vehicles whereby the department of motor vehicles
  will provide the state board of elections information  to  assist  local
  boards of elections to verify a voter's identity pursuant to the federal
  Help America Vote Act of 2002.
3.  The  commissioner  of motor vehicles shall enter into an agreement
  with the federal commissioner of  social  security  whereby  the  social
  security  administration will provide the commissioner of motor vehicles
  information to allow local boards  of  elections  to  verify  a  voter's
  identity pursuant to the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002.
4.  In  addition,  the  state  board  of elections, in accordance with
  subdivision four of section 3-100 of this title,  shall  enter  into  an
  agreement  with  other  agencies  within the state that have information
  relevant to the verification of a voter's identity whereby such agencies
  will provide the state board of elections information  to  assist  local
  boards of elections to verify a voter's identity pursuant to the federal
  Help America Vote Act of 2002.
5.   The   information   transmitted   between   the  statewide  voter
  registration list and other databases, as provided for in this  section,
  shall  be  limited  to  the  information  which  is contained in a voter
  registration application and is necessary to verify a voter's  identity.
  The information contained in the statewide voter registration list shall
  not be used for non-election purposes.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 1 - Statewide Provisions › 3-104-A - Compliance Unit; Compliance Procedures.

§  3-104-a. Compliance unit; compliance procedures.  1. There shall be
  a compliance unit within the board of  elections.  The  compliance  unit
  shall  examine campaign finance statements required to be filed pursuant
  to article fourteen of this chapter. If such statements are found to  be
  deficient,  the compliance unit shall notify the person required to file
  such statement of such deficiency. Such notice shall be in  writing  and
  mailed to the last known residence or business address of such person by
  certified  mail,  return receipt requested, or mailed to such address by
  first class mail if an affidavit attesting to such mailing is created to
  evidence such mailing. If the person required to file such statement  is
  a treasurer who has stated that the committee has been authorized by one
  or  more  candidates,  a  copy  of  such  notice  shall  be sent to each
  candidate by first class mail.
2. Upon a  failure  to  remedy  the  deficiencies  identified  by  the
  compliance  unit  within  thirty  days of the receipt of such notice the
  chief enforcement counsel may proceed pursuant to  subdivision  five  of
  section  3-104  of  this title. If such notice is received within thirty
  days of an election,  failure  to  remedy  the  deficiencies  identified
  within  seven  days  of the receipt of such notice the chief enforcement
  counsel may proceed pursuant to subdivision five  of  section  3-104  of
  this title.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 1 - Statewide Provisions › 3-106 - Fair Campaign Code.

§  3-106.  Fair campaign code. 1. In addition to the powers and duties
  elsewhere enumerated in this article,  the  state  board  of  elections,
  after  public hearings, shall adopt a "fair campaign code" setting forth
  ethical  standards  of  conduct  for  persons,  political  parties   and
  committees  engaged in election campaigns including, but not limited to,
  specific prohibitions against practices of political espionage and other
  political practices involving subversion of the  political  parties  and
  process.
2.  Copies  of  such  code  shall be sent to each candidate, political
  party or political committee, upon request, by the  board  of  elections
  with  which  such  candidate,  party  or  committee  is required to file
  statements of campaign financial disclosure pursuant to article fourteen
  of this chapter.
3. The state board of  elections,  on  its  own  initiative,  or  upon
  complaint  or  otherwise,  may  investigate any alleged violation of the
  fair campaign code and, in appropriate cases, may apply for an order, as
  provided in this article.
4. In addition to any other civil or criminal  penalty  which  may  be
  provided  for by law, the state board may impose a civil penalty, not to
  exceed one thousand dollars, upon any person found by the board, after a
  hearing, to have violated any of the provisions of such code.
5. Any such finding by the board may  only  be  had  after  a  hearing
  conducted  by  it  upon  reasonable  written  notice,  as  the board may
  determine, to  such  person  and  affording  such  person  a  reasonable
  opportunity to be heard and present and examine witnesses thereat.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 1 - Statewide Provisions › 3-110 - Time Allowed Employees to Vote.

§ 3-110. Time allowed employees to vote. 1. If a registered voter does
  not  have sufficient time outside of his or her scheduled working hours,
  within which to vote on any day at which he or  she  may  vote,  at  any
  election,  he  or she may, without loss of pay for up to two hours, take
  off so much working time as will, when added to his or her  voting  time
  outside his or her working hours, enable him or her to vote.
2.  If  an  employee  has  four  consecutive  hours either between the
  opening of the polls and the beginning of his or her working  shift,  or
  between  the  end  of  his  or  her working shift and the closing of the
  polls, he or she shall be deemed to have sufficient time outside his  or
  her  working hours within which to vote. If he or she has less than four
  consecutive hours he or she may take off so much working time  as  will,
  when  added  to  his or her voting time outside his or her working hours
  enable him or her to vote, but not more than two hours of which shall be
  without loss of pay, provided that he or she shall be allowed  time  off
  for  voting only at the beginning or end of his or her working shift, as
  the employer may designate, unless otherwise mutually agreed.
3. If the employee requires working time  off  to  vote  the  employee
  shall  notify  his  or  her employer not more than ten nor less than two
  working days before the day of the election that he or she requires time
  off to vote in accordance with the provisions of this section.
4. Not less  than  ten  working  days  before  every  election,  every
  employer  shall  post conspicuously in the place of work where it can be
  seen as employees come or go to their place of work,  a  notice  setting
  forth  the  provisions of this section. Such notice shall be kept posted
  until the close of the polls on election day.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 2 - Board of Elections › 3-200 - Boards of Elections; Creation, Qualifications of Commissioners, Removal.

§   3-200.   Boards   of   elections;   creation,   qualifications  of
  commissioners, removal. 1. There shall be a board of elections  in  each
  county  of  the  state and in the city of New York for the five counties
  thereof.
2. Each board shall consist of two election commissioners, except that
  the county legislative body of a county having a population of more than
  one hundred and twenty thousand may, by local law, increase  the  number
  of  commissioners  to  four,  to be appointed as provided in this title.
  Each of the major political  parties  shall  be  eligible  to  recommend
  appointment of an equal number of commissioners.
3.   In  the  city  of  New  York  the  board  shall  consist  of  ten
  commissioners of election who shall be registered voters in  the  county
  for  which  they  are  appointed and they shall be appointed by the city
  council of the city of New York. Not more than two  commissioners  shall
  be registered voters of the same county.
4.  No  person shall be appointed as election commissioner or continue
  to hold office who is not a registered voter in the county  and  not  an
  enrolled  member of the party recommending his appointment, or who holds
  any other public office, except that of commissioner  of  deeds,  notary
  public,  village  officer,  city  or town justice, member of a community
  board within the city of New York or trustee  or  officer  of  a  school
  district outside of a city.
6.  An election commissioner shall not be a candidate for any elective
  office which he would not be entitled to hold under  the  provisions  of
  this  article,  unless  he has ceased by resignation or otherwise, to be
  commissioner prior to his nomination or designation therefor.  Otherwise
  such nomination or designation shall be null and void.
7. An election commissioner may be removed from office by the governor
  for  cause  in  the  same  manner as a sheriff. Any vacancy so resulting
  shall be filled in a manner  prescribed  by  this  article  for  filling
  vacancies.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 2 - Board of Elections › 3-202 - Election Commissioners; Term of Office.

§ 3-202. Election commissioners; term of office. 1. The term of office
  of  an  election commissioner shall be two years beginning January first
  of each odd numbered year except that in the city of New  York  and  the
  county  of Schenectady the term shall be four years beginning on January
  first of each alternate odd numbered year. The county  legislative  body
  of  any  other  county may determine that the commissioners of elections
  thereafter appointed  shall  serve  for  a  term  of  four  years.  Such
  determination  may  be  rescinded  by  a subsequent action of the county
  legislative body which shall take effect at the expiration of the  terms
  of the commissioners then in office.
2.  The  local  legislative  body may, at any time, determine that the
  terms of office for  commissioners  shall  be  staggered  and  may  make
  subsequent  appointments  so as to provide for staggered terms of office
  thereafter.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 2 - Board of Elections › 3-208 - Election Commissioners; Salaries.

§  3-208. Election commissioners; salaries. Each election commissioner
  in the same county shall receive an equal salary. The salary shall be an
  annual salary to be fixed by the county  legislative  body  except  that
  each commissioner of elections in the city of New York shall receive the
  sum  of  three  hundred dollars for each day's attendance at meetings of
  the board or any of  its  committees,  not  to  exceed  thirty  thousand
  dollars a year.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 2 - Board of Elections › 3-210 - Election Commissioners; Certificate of Appointment, Filing Of.

§  3-210.  Election  commissioners; certificate of appointment, filing
  of.  The certificate of appointment of an election commissioner shall be
  filed in the office of the clerk of the county  where  the  commissioner
  resides  and  the  clerk  shall  immediately  notify  the state board of
  elections of the appointment.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 2 - Board of Elections › 3-214 - Board of Elections; General Office and Branches, Hours.

§  3-214.  Board of elections; general office and branches, hours.  1.
  The board of elections in the city of New York shall maintain an  office
  in  the  borough  of  Manhattan, which shall be the headquarters of such
  board, and an office in each borough of the  city.  Elsewhere,  in  each
  county, the county legislative body shall provide the board of elections
  for such county with proper and suitable offices.
2.  Any  board of elections may establish as many fixed branch offices
  as it deems necessary.
3. Each office shall be open at least every business day during  usual
  business  hours, except that each central board office shall be open for
  the receipt of papers at least between the hours of nine A.M.  and  five
  P.M.  on  the last day on which a paper may be filed with it and on such
  other days and hours as may be required  herein.  In  each  of  the  two
  calendar  weeks  before  each general election, each office shall remain
  open on at least two business days until at  least  seven  P.M.  and  on
  Saturdays from not later than nine A.M. until at least noon. In the city
  of New York, each office shall also remain open on the Sunday before the
  general election from not later than ten A.M. until at least one P.M.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 2 - Board of Elections › 3-216 - Boards of Elections; Assistance To, Records to Be Furnished It.

§  3-216.  Boards of elections; assistance to, records to be furnished
  it.  1. Any law enforcement agency whenever called upon by  a  board  of
  elections, shall assist in the investigation of registrations and render
  all other practicable assistance in the enforcement of this chapter. The
  officer in charge shall detail to the service of the board of elections,
  upon its written request, such members or employees of the agency as may
  be necessary.
2.  Every  public officer shall be required to furnish to the board of
  elections, without charge, such copies of the official  records  in  his
  custody,  certified  by  him,  as  the  board  may  require  and  as are
  appropriate and necessary for the performance of its duties.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 2 - Board of Elections › 3-218 - Subpoenas; Power to Issue by Boards of Elections.

§  3-218.  Subpoenas;  power  to issue by boards of elections. 1.  The
  board of elections and any of the commissioners thereof may require  any
  person  to  appear  and  attend before the board or a commissioner at an
  office of the board and be examined by the board or a commissioner as to
  any matter in relation to which the board is charged with a  duty  under
  this  chapter,  or  in relation to violations of the elective franchise,
  and subpoenas may issue therefor.
2. When an  oath  is  required  or  permitted  by  this  chapter,  any
  commissioner,  or  an employee of the board designated in writing by it,
  may administer such oath.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 2 - Board of Elections › 3-224 - Voting Machines; Use of by Other Than the Board of Elections.

§ 3-224. Voting machines; use of by other than the board of elections.
  The  board  of  elections  may permit towns, villages, school districts,
  fire, ambulance, water, sanitation, police and other  special  districts
  within the county to use voting machines and other equipment owned by it
  and   used   for  the  conduct  of  elections  or  for  educational  and
  instructional purposes, upon such rental and other terms and  conditions
  as shall be fixed by it. Such board may similarly permit the use of such
  machines  by associations and organizations for the conduct of elections
  where it judges the use of such machines for elections conducted by such
  associations and organizations will be in the public interest.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 2 - Board of Elections › 3-226 - Boards of Elections; Ownership, Care, Custody and Control of Voting Machines.

§  3-226. Boards of elections; ownership, care, custody and control of
  voting machines. 1. Boards  of  elections  shall  direct  the  purchase,
  acquisition  or  lease  of voting machines, of a kind authorized by law,
  which shall be selected by such board provided, however, nothing in this
  section shall preclude the state board of  elections  from  distributing
  voting  machines  to  boards  of  elections  without  charge. All voting
  machines, and appliances and  equipment  relating  to  or  used  in  the
  conduct  of  elections  shall be in the care, custody and control of the
  board of elections. Such board shall cause  all  necessary  repairs  and
  maintenance  to  be  made  and  employ  such help as may be necessary in
  making such repairs and  in  moving,  setting  up  and  caring  for  all
  election materials, equipment and appliances, including voting machines.
  All  supplies,  equipment or election appliances to be used or furnished
  by such board shall be purchased by such board.  All  expenses  of  such
  board  of  elections  shall  be certified, audited and paid as are other
  claims against the county, or in the case of the city of  New  York,  by
  such  city,  and  all  expenses  connected  with  elections  and matters
  preliminary relating thereto, including compensation of  inspectors  and
  clerks  of  election, shall be a county charge, except, at the option of
  the county, all or any part of  the  type  of  expenses  connected  with
  elections   and  matters  preliminary  or  relating  thereto  that  were
  previously incurred by towns and cities, may be apportioned pursuant  to
  this chapter to a city or town.
2.  The  board of elections shall publish or post, as the case may be,
  all notices, lists and other materials relating to  elections  to  which
  this  section  applies, and which are required by law to be published or
  posted in  the  county,  or  a  political  subdivision  therein,  except
  publications made by the state board of elections and village clerks.
3. Lists of persons recommended to serve as inspectors of election and
  poll  clerks  shall be filed by the chairperson of the county committees
  of the political parties entitled to  representation  on  the  board  of
  elections.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 3 - Election Personnel › 3-300 - Board Employees; Appointment.

§  3-300. Board employees; appointment. 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.  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 title and prescribe his 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.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 3 - Election Personnel › 3-302 - Voting Machine Technicians and Custodians; Appointment, Duties.

§  3-302.  Voting  machine  technicians  and  custodians; appointment,
  duties.  1. The board of elections shall appoint as many voting  machine
  technicians  and voting machine custodians as shall be necessary for the
  proper  preparation  and  repair  of  voting  machines.  Voting  machine
  technicians may be full time employees of the board of elections and may
  also  serve  as  voting  machine  custodians as hereinafter provided. No
  person shall be appointed as  a  voting  machine  technician  or  voting
  machine  custodian  who is a candidate for any public office to be voted
  for by the voters of the district in which he is to serve.
2. The voting machine technicians shall, under the  direction  of  the
  board  of  elections  supervise  the preparation of the voting machines.
  They shall inspect voting machines to insure that  they  are  in  proper
  repair and working order and shall notify the board of elections and the
  appropriate  town or city clerk of the repairs found to be needed on any
  machine. They shall have the authority to recommend the rejection  of  a
  machine  to  the  board  of  elections  as  not  in  suitable mechanical
  condition for use in an election. They shall perform all other duties as
  required by the board of elections.
3. The board of elections shall, before the fifteenth day  of  January
  of  each  year,  appoint as many custodians of voting machines as may be
  necessary for the proper preparation  of  the  machines.  The  custodian
  shall, under the direction of the board of elections, have charge of and
  represent  the  board  of elections during the preparation of the voting
  machines and serve at the pleasure of the board of elections.
4. The board of elections shall as often as necessary provide a course
  of training and education  on  the  preparation,  use,  maintenance  and
  repair  of  the  voting  machine.  Attendance  at  such  course shall be
  required of all voting  machine  technicians  who  have  not  previously
  completed such a course satisfactorily.
5. Any person who fails to satisfactorily complete such a course shall
  not be permitted to serve as a voting machine technician.
6.  Voting  machine  custodians  shall  be  paid for their services an
  amount fixed by the board of elections, which amount shall, however,  be
  approved  by  the legislative body of the county and shall be payable by
  the county, or in the case of the city of  New  York,  payable  by  such
  city.
7.  Salaries of voting machine technicians shall be fixed by the board
  of elections as provided herein and provided further that  the  salaries
  for  each  technician may vary dependent on the number of machines to be
  serviced, other duties assigned and such other factors as the board  may
  consider relevant.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 4 - Election Inspectors and Poll Clerks › 3-401 - Election Coordinators; Provision For.

§  3-401.  Election  coordinators;  provision  for.  1.  The  board of
  elections of each county and in the city  of  New  York,  the  board  of
  elections  of  the  city  of  New  York, may, in its discretion, appoint
  persons to perform election day duties  including  directing  voters  to
  their  proper  polling place, assist election inspectors and poll clerks
  in the performance of their duties, and such  other  duties  as  may  be
  assigned  to  them  by  the  board  of  elections. Such persons shall be
  designated as election coordinators.
2. All election coordinators shall be trained in the manner prescribed
  by this article  for  election  inspectors  and  poll  clerks.  Election
  coordinators   shall  be  appointed  by  the  board  of  elections.  The
  appointment of election coordinators shall be  equally  divided  between
  the two major political parties.
3.   The  board  of  elections  of  each  county  appointing  election
  coordinators and in the city of New York, the board of elections of  the
  city of New York, may, in its discretion, prescribe training in addition
  to that required by this article.
4.  Any county board of elections appointing election coordinators and
  in the city of New York, the board of elections of the city of New York,
  shall prepare a report detailing assignments and duties to be  delegated
  to  election  coordinators.  Said  report  shall be filed with the state
  board of elections no later than one month  prior  to  the  election  at
  which election coordinators are to be assigned.
5.  No person shall be certified or act as an election coordinator who
  is not a registered voter and a resident  of  the  county  in  which  he
  serves,  or  within  the  city  of New York, of such city, who holds any
  elective public office, or who is a candidate for any public  office  to
  be  voted  for by the voters of the district in which he is to serve, or
  which is not able to speak and read the English language  and  write  it
  legibly.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 4 - Election Inspectors and Poll Clerks › 3-402 - Election Inspectors and Poll Clerks; Authority.

§  3-402. Election inspectors and poll clerks; authority. 1.  Election
  inspectors, in performing their duties, shall  act  as  a  board  and  a
  majority  vote  thereof  shall  be required to decide all questions. If,
  however, any inspector or inspectors shall be temporarily absent  for  a
  portion  of  the  meeting,  the  inspectors  present  shall have and may
  exercise any power or perform any duty conferred or imposed upon a board
  of inspectors, provided that they  are  not  all  members  of  the  same
  political party.
2.  Wherever  an  oath  is provided for at any meeting of the board of
  inspectors, any inspector may administer it.
3. The board of inspectors, and each member  thereof,  shall  preserve
  good order within and around the polling place or place of registration,
  and  shall keep access thereto unobstructed. The board of inspectors, or
  any member thereof, by order in writing may direct  the  arrest  of  any
  person  who refuses to obey the lawful commands of the inspectors or who
  is  guilty  of  disorderly  conduct  disturbing  their  proceedings   or
  violating  or  attempting  to  violate  any  of  the  provisions of this
  chapter. Any peace officer, acting pursuant to his  special  duties,  or
  police  officer  shall, when requested by the board or a member thereof,
  execute such order forthwith.
4. All election inspectors shall perform their duties as  required  by
  the election law, and in accordance with the directions and instructions
  given them by the board of elections.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 4 - Election Inspectors and Poll Clerks › 3-406 - Election Inspectors and Poll Clerks; Additional.

§  3-406.  Election  inspectors  and poll clerks; additional. 1.  Each
  board of elections shall establish a list of persons duly  qualified  to
  serve  as  election  inspectors,  which  list  shall  be  known  as  the
  "Additional Inspector List", in such number  of  persons  as  the  board
  shall  determine. Such a list shall be equally divided between the major
  political parties. Appointments under this section shall be made in  the
  manner  provided  for the appointment of regular election inspectors and
  for a like term.
2. Any person serving as an additional inspector of elections may,  at
  the  direction  of  the  board of elections, be assigned to any election
  district or transferred from one election district to another  after  he
  has  entered upon the performance of his duties on a day of registration
  or election.
3. Any person designated to the additional inspectors list shall  meet
  the  requirements  for regular election inspectors and may be removed in
  the same manner as any election inspector.
4. If the board of elections shall determine  that  a  vacancy  exists
  upon  any  board  of  inspectors  or that any election inspector or poll
  clerk is absent, and that no qualified voter has been appointed pursuant
  to this chapter to act in place  of  such  election  inspector  or  poll
  clerk,  or  to relieve any qualified voter who has been so appointed, it
  shall forthwith direct a person appointed pursuant to  this  section  to
  act in place of the absent election inspector or poll clerk or qualified
  voter so appointed until such absent election inspector or his appointed
  successor  shall appear; provided, however, that the additional election
  inspector so appointed shall be a designee of the same  political  party
  as  the  election  inspector  in  whose place he shall act. The board of
  elections shall provide suitable  identification  for  every  additional
  election  inspector  to  present  to  the  chairman  of the board before
  entering upon the duties of such office.
5. Additional inspectors shall be paid by the  county  in  which  they
  serve in an amount fixed by the board of elections.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 4 - Election Inspectors and Poll Clerks › 3-410 - Election Inspectors and Poll Clerks; Certification.

§  3-410.  Election  inspectors  and  poll  clerks;  certification. 1.
  Before a person designated as an election officer  may  enter  upon  his
  duties,  he  must  be  certified  by  the board of elections as provided
  herein.
2.  If  an  election  officer  fails  to  meet  the  requirements  for
  certification, the office shall be treated as vacant.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 4 - Election Inspectors and Poll Clerks › 3-414 - Election Inspectors and Poll Clerks; Oath of Office, Certificate of Appointment.

§  3-414.  Election  inspectors  and  poll  clerks;  oath  of  office,
  certificate of appointment. 1. Every person designated and certified  as
  an   election   inspector   shall,  within  ten  days  after  notice  of
  certification, take and subscribe the constitutional and statutory  oath
  of  office,  which shall be administered by a commissioner of elections,
  or by any employee of the board of elections who shall be designated  in
  writing to administer such oaths, or by the clerk of the city or town in
  which  the  election  district  for  which  such  person is certified is
  located. Oaths of office shall be filed in the office of  the  board  of
  elections.
2. Every person so sworn shall receive a certificate of appointment in
  such  form  as  may  be approved by the board under which he serves, and
  such form shall specify  the  capacity  and  the  election  district  or
  districts, in which he is to serve and the date of the expiration of the
  term of office.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 4 - Election Inspectors and Poll Clerks › 3-416 - Election Inspectors, Poll Clerks and Election Coordinators; Removal.

§  3-416.  Election inspectors, poll clerks and election coordinators;
  removal. 1. Any election officer appointed pursuant to the provisions of
  this chapter,  may  be  removed  for  cause  by  the  board  making  the
  appointment.  Unless  such  removal  is for improper conduct, while such
  officer is actually on duty on the day of registration or  election,  it
  shall  occur  only after notice in writing to the officer to be removed.
  Such notice shall  set  forth  clearly  the  reasons  for  his  removal.
  Neglect  to  attend to the duties of the office shall be a cause for the
  removal of any such officer.
2. It shall be the duty of the board  making  the  appointment  of  an
  election  officer,  to  remove forthwith such officer without preferring
  any charges and without notice to such officer, upon the written request
  of the official of the political party who certified the  name  of  such
  election  officer, or his successor. All such vacancies so created shall
  be filled in the same manner as the original appointment was  made.  Any
  election  officer  who shall at any time be appointed to fill a vacancy,
  shall have that fact stated in his certificate of appointment and  shall
  hold office only during the unexpired term of his predecessor.
3.  Any  election inspector, poll clerk or election coordinator who is
  removed from office for cause shall forfeit the compensation  earned  up
  to the time of such removal.
4.  An  election  inspector, poll clerk or election coordinator who is
  removed for cause shall be ineligible to again serve in  such  capacity;
  provided,  however,  that  the board of elections may rehear the charges
  against such person at any time and it may determine  that  such  person
  shall again be eligible for appointment if otherwise qualified.
2023 New York Laws › ELN - Election › Article 3 - Election Officials › Title 4 - Election Inspectors and Poll Clerks › 3-418 - Election Inspectors and Poll Clerks; Emergency Provisions for Filling Vacancies or Absences.

§ 3-418. Election inspectors and poll clerks; emergency provisions for
  filling  vacancies  or  absences. 1. If, at the time of a meeting of the
  inspectors, there shall be a vacancy,  or  if  any  inspector  shall  be
  absent,  the  inspector present who is the designee of the same party as
  the absent inspector shall appoint a qualified voter of the same city or
  town to  act  in  place  of  the  absent  inspector.  If,  however,  any
  inspectors shall be temporarily absent for a portion of the meeting, the
  inspectors  present,  provided that they are not all members of the same
  political party, shall have and may exercise any power  or  perform  any
  duty conferred or imposed upon a board of inspectors.
2.  If  at the time of any such meeting two inspectors who are members
  of the same party shall be absent, or their places shall be vacant,  the
  poll  clerk  or poll clerks present, if any, of the same party shall act
  as inspectors and shall appoint qualified voters of  the  same  city  or
  town  who are members of the same party as the absent inspectors, to act
  in place of such clerks.
3. If at the time of any such meeting  two  inspectors  and  the  poll
  clerk  or  clerks,  if  any,  who are members of the same party shall be
  absent, or their places shall be vacant,  the  inspector  or  inspectors
  present,  or  in their absence the poll clerk or clerks present, if any,
  shall appoint qualified voters of the same city or town, who are members
  of the same party as such absent inspectors, to act as  such  inspectors
  and  clerks,  until  the  inspectors  or  clerks  duly  appointed by the
  original appointing authority, shall appear.
4. If at the time of any such meeting, there shall be a vacancy in the
  office of poll clerk, or if a poll clerk shall be absent, the inspectors
  who are designees of the same party, or in their absence, any poll clerk
  of the same party who is present, shall appoint a qualified voter of the
  same city or town who is a member of the same party, to act in place  of
  the absent poll clerk.
5.  Every  person so appointed or named shall take the oath of office,
  which shall be administered by any person authorized to administer oaths
  or by one of the inspectors.