County of Chautauqua v. Chautauqua County Employees' Unit 6300 of Local 807 of the Civil Service Employees' Ass'n
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
— Order unanimously affirmed with costs. Memorandum: Election Law § 3-300 expressly empowers a county board of elections to appoint "and at its pleasure” to remove its employees. By enacting that statute, the Legislature furthered the constitutional mandate of bipartisan participation in the functions of boards of elections (see, NY Const, art II, §8) and vested boards of election with complete and exclusive control of their personnel and the performance of their duties in that highly sensitive governmental area. Indeed, an employee of the board of elections can be removed from her position…
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