NYC Board of Elections steps up training. Will that fix its record of dysfunction?
New York City’s Board of Elections is more often criticized for its mistakes than praised for its successes.
In an effort to change that, the board on Tuesday certified 15 of its senior managers as professional elections administrators. The staff members will graduate with a certification offered by the nonpartisan Election Center, a nonprofit organization that has been training election staff across the country for three decades. Some of the board’s most vocal critics heralded the move, while others argued that further structural reforms are still necessary.
“This is a significant step on the part of the New York City board to try and improve the election administration,” said Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York. Her organization has sued the city Board of Elections in the past, but she praised the new certification as a strategy to prevent administrative problems.
“Is that a guarantee that nothing will ever go wrong again?” Lerner added. “Of course not.”
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