(a) The general laws of the State shall apply to and control, as near as may be, all procedures relating to elections, except as such laws relate to political parties or partisan procedure. Council shall be the Municipal election authority, and may prescribe other rules for the conduct of other elections not inconsistent with general law or the provisions of this article.
(b) The powers and duties prescribed by State law for county commissions shall devolve upon Council, and the powers and duties prescribed by State law for clerks of circuit courts and for clerks of county commissions shall devolve upon the Recorder, insofar as the State law may be made applicable to Municipal elections and subject to the provisions of this article. (1976 Code Sec. 6-1)
(c) The Recorder of the City and two persons by him appointed, one from each of the two political parties which cast the largest and second largest number of votes in the last preceding City election, shall constitute a Board of Ballot Commissioners of which Board, the Recorder shall be the chairman. The Recorder shall notify the chairman of the respective executive committees of such two parties at least five days before making such appointments, of the time and place of making the same, and if at any time after such notice is given, and before or on the day so fixed for making the appointments,the chairman of either party designates in writing a member of such party as Ballot Commissioner having the qualifications of a voter, he shall be appointed. A Ballot Commissioner shall be appointed between January 15 and 30 of each year in which an election is to be held for a term of two years, beginning on February 1 next ensuing. Ballot Commissioners shall perform such duties as are prescribed by state law at all general or special City elections held in the City.
(Ord. 2-91. Passed 2-12-91.)