SB459:

General registrar; SBE to establish & Dept. of Elections to conduct program to evaluate performance.

Bill Summary:

Elections; administration; registrars; certain
prohibitions. Requires the State Board of Elections to establish
and the Department of Elections to conduct a program for the evaluation
of the performance of general registrars. Under such evaluation program,
general registrars with below satisfactory performance are subject
to remedial requirements and possible removal. The bill prohibits
general 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 chairman
of a political party or other officer of a state, local, or district
level political party committee nor a spouse, relative, or person
with whom he resides who serves as a paid or volunteer worker in
the campaign of a candidate for nomination or election to an office
filled by election in whole or in part by the qualified voters of
the registrar's jurisdiction. The bill also applies certain prohibitions
on registrars and their spouses to all assistant registrars, some
of which only apply to paid assistant registrars under current law.