§ 168.683Election inspectors; instruction, compensation, vacancy

Sec. 683.
    Each county clerk before each primary and election shall, by some reliable means, notify
 the clerk of each township and city in the county of a training school for election inspectors to
 be held at a place designated by the county clerk within 20 days before each primary, general,


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 and special election. The township and city clerks shall notify each election inspector
 appointed to serve at that election of the time and place of the training school. At the meeting,
 the county clerk shall instruct and demonstrate the manner in which the duties of election
 inspectors are required by law to be performed. It is the duty of the inspectors, so notified, to
 attend the meeting unless excused by the county clerk for good cause. Compensation may be
 paid to them by their respective municipalities at a rate as determined by the governing bodies.
 An election inspector shall not serve in any election unless he or she has within the last
 preceding 2 years either attended an election school or has passed satisfactorily an
 examination given by the election commission of the city or township in which appointed. The
 examination is subject to the approval of the secretary of state. This section does not prevent
 the appointment of an election inspector to fill a vacancy. This section does not prohibit any
 city or any township having a population of 10,000 or more from conducting its own training
 school for election inspectors of that city or township. If a city or township conducts its own
 training school, election inspectors who attend a city or township training school are not
 required to attend the county training school.