Section 212. Annual election and notice thereof

The district commissioners
  of such improvement  district  shall  publish  at  the  expense  of  the
  district   the   notice   of   each  election  of  improvement  district
  commissioners held pursuant  to  this  article.  Such  notice  shall  be
  published  at  least  once  in  one  or  more  newspapers having general
  circulation in the district and the first publication thereof  shall  be
  at  least  twenty  days  before  the day of such election. The notice of
  annual election shall specify the time when  and  the  place  or  places
  where  such  election shall be held and the hours during which the polls
  will be open for the receipt of ballots. Notice of such  election  shall
  also be posted on the websites of the district and the town in which the
  district  is  located, if such websites are maintained, on the signboard
  of the town, and conspicuously posted in three or more designated public
  locations within the district, on or about the day on which such  notice
  is  published. Such election shall be held at a suitable place or places
  within the district designated by the  district  commissioners  and  the
  polls  shall  remain  open  from  six  o'clock in the evening until nine
  o'clock in the evening  and  such  additional  consecutive  hours  prior
  thereto  as  the district commissioners may determine and specify in the
  notice of such election.  The board of commissioners  of  such  district
  shall  designate  for  each district election not less than two nor more
  than four resident taxpayers to act as election  inspectors  and  ballot
  clerks  for  each  designated  polling place. The board of commissioners
  shall fix the compensation of such election inspectors and ballot clerks
  in an amount not to exceed ten dollars per hour each for every  hour  or
  part  thereof  of  such  service and such compensation shall be a charge
  against the district. The board  of  commissioners  shall  cause  to  be
  prepared  the  ballots  for  all elections, and may authorize the use of
  voting machines approved by the secretary of  state  at  any  annual  or
  special  election of the district in accordance with article nine of the
  election law. After the polls shall have been closed  at  any  election,
  the  election  inspectors  and ballot clerks at each polling place shall
  immediately canvass the ballots cast and  shall  publicly  announce  the
  result  of  the vote at that polling place. Within twenty-four hours the
  chairman of the board of commissioners, election inspectors  and  ballot
  clerks shall execute and file a certificate of the result of the canvass
  with the board of commissioners of the improvement district and with the
  clerk of the town in which said district is located.