Only qualified electors who have completed a program of
instruction in the rules, procedures and law relating to elections
may serve as election officials.
The board must train each new election officer before the new
officer participates in his or her first election in that
capacity. The board must instruct election officials who have been
trained previously only when the board considers such instruction
necessary, but the board must reinstruct such persons, other than
presiding judges, at least once every three years. Presiding
judges must be trained before the primary election in every
even-numbered year.
Poll workers will be reimbursed, at a rate determined by the
board, for attending training sessions.
No person who has been convicted of a felony or any violation
of the election laws, or who is unable to read and write the
English language readily, or who is a candidate for an office to
be voted for by the voters of the precinct in which the person is
to serve-other than a candidate for county central committee who
is not opposed by any other candidate in that precinct-may serve
as an elections officer.
