Section 141
Persons disqualified from acting as election officersNo person holding an elective office to which this Act relates or a registered member of a political party shall be eligible for or be appointed to carry out the duties of a returning officer, an electoral officer, presiding officer or a poll clerk, and any officer appointed to carry out any of those duties shall be ineligible for nomination as a candidate for election while he or she continues to hold such appointment.
This section seeks to make a clear separation between the role of election officers and that of politicians by stating that elected officers or members of political parties cannot serve as election or polling officers. Conversely, election officers would be ineligible for nomination as candidates as long as they hold that position.
