SB 459

Abstract

Elections; administration; registrars; certain prohibitions. Requires the State Board of Elections to establishand the Department of Elections to conduct a program for the evaluationof the performance of general registrars. Under such evaluation program, general registrars with below satisfactory performance are subjectto remedial requirements and possible removal. The bill prohibitsgeneral registrars from conducting the duties of officers of election.The bill also provides that no general registrar may have a spouse,relative, or person with whom he resides who serves as the chairmanof a political party or other officer of a state, local, or districtlevel political party committee nor a spouse, relative, or person with whom he resides who serves as a paid or volunteer worker inthe campaign of a candidate for nomination or election to an officefilled by election in whole or in part by the qualified voters ofthe registrar's jurisdiction. The bill also applies certain prohibitionson registrars and their spouses to all assistant registrars, someof which only apply to paid assistant registrars under current law.