[Added 12-14-2023 by Ord. No. 23-748]
There shall be a minimum of seven inspectors for the polling place at each election. When voting machines are used, the number of inspectors may be reduced to five. Additional inspectors may be appointed whenever more than one voting machine is used or wards are combined. Inspectors shall be appointed as provided in Wis. Stats. §
7.30. Alternate officials may also be appointed to a number sufficient to maintain adequate staffing of polling places. No fewer than three election inspectors, one of which must be a chief election inspector, shall be appointed for each shift. Pursuant to Wis. Stats. §
7.30(1), the Village of Bayside provides for the selection of two or more sets of election inspectors to work at different times on each election day and for the Village Clerk, Deputy Clerk, or designee to establish different working hours for different officials assigned to the same polling place. The Village Clerk, Deputy Clerk, or designee may establish and assign partial or split shifts for election inspectors, with the final shift to continue until the completion of all required Election Day duties that follow the closure of the polls. Pursuant to Wis. Stats. §
7.30(3)(a), the Village Clerk and Deputy Clerk, as well as election inspectors, are authorized to act as tabulators in any election.