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Can someone serve as a precinct election official if that person is related to a candidate on the ballot?

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Can someone serve as a precinct election official if that person is related to a candidate on the ballot?

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Maybe. Precinct election officials may not serve in a precinct if they are related within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity to an opposed candidate on the ballot. Consanguinity means family relationship by blood. Affinity means family relationship by marriage.