Sec. 4. (a) Each county election board may employ clerical assistants if necessary for the proper canvassing and tabulating of the vote. However, except as provided in subsection (d), not more than one-half (1/2) of the assistants employed by the board may be members of the same political party.

     (b) The county election board shall appoint the number of two (2) member write-in teams that are necessary to examine and count write-in votes cast on ballot card voting systems on election night. The county chairmen of the two (2) major political parties of a county shall each designate one (1) member of each write-in team. The write-in teams are considered employees of the county canvassing board and must meet the qualifications of canvassing board employees.

     (c) Except as provided in subsection (d), a county election board may not employ a person to assist with canvassing unless the person would be eligible to serve as a precinct election officer under IC 3-6-6-7.

     (d) The county election board may, by unanimous vote of the entire membership of the board, employ a student to assist the board under this section if the student is:

(1) enrolled at a postsecondary educational institution (including a community college); and

(2) a registered voter of the county.

A student appointed under this subsection must serve the board in a nonpartisan manner.

[Pre-1986 Recodification Citation: 3-1-25-10 part.]

As added by P.L.5-1986, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.4-1991, SEC.113; P.L.1-1992, SEC.5; P.L.3-1993, SEC.189; P.L.209-2003, SEC.185; P.L.2-2007, SEC.16.