§ 12313 Precinct Board Vacancy Filling

• •Voters present at the opening can appoint a replacement if a board member is missing.
• •If the appointed replacement also doesn’t appear, the voters can appoint a whole new board.
• •This rule only works for regular precinct polls, not for vote‑center elections.

On election day, a precinct board member forgets to show up at the polling place. The voters who arrived early notice the empty seat.

Those early voters can choose another voter to take the missing board member’s place. If the person they pick also doesn’t show up, the same group of voters can choose an entire new board to run the poll.