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Additionally, 11 states have passed laws since 2020 that create new protections for election officials and poll workers – ranging from making it a crime to threaten a worker to shielding ...
This is a clear case of a poll worker thinking that his opinion supersedes election laws.” Huffman called for the worker’s removal due to “a clear pattern of misusing his authority ...
A resign-to-run law is a law that requires the current holder of an office to resign from that office before they can run for another office. This is distinct from a dual mandate prohibition, where a person has to resign from their old office to assume the new office, rather than to run for the new office.
The current state law provides that election workers, as independent contractors, be paid using a 1099 form. Election workers who make $600 on the 1099 would then provide file taxes using that 1099.
Ward challenged the signature verification process, claiming election workers were unfit to verify signatures. Ward also challenged the ballot duplication process, whereby bipartisan county workers transferred votes to new ballots when ballot tabulators could not read them, claiming that observers were not allowed to view the entire process.
Resignation is the formal act of leaving or quitting one's office or position. A resignation can occur when a person holding a position gained by election or appointment steps down, but leaving a position upon the expiration of a term, or choosing not to seek an additional term, is not considered resignation.
Elections officials are also required by law to ask voters for one of these documents to establish their identity before giving them a ballot, according to Iowa Code 49.78.The documents include:
It is uncertain if the Alaska governor may successfully appoint an interim senator to serve until the mandated special election occurs 60 to 90 days after the vacancy happens. The ballot-approved law fails to specifically authorize the governor to appoint, though the legislative law does. [5]