(a) The person appointed as an election coordinator for each county shall attend the instructional portion of the training program conducted by the State Board of Election Commissioners before the regularly scheduled preferential primary election.
(b)
(1) In the event that the county board of election commissioners appoints an election coordinator after the preferential primary, the newly appointed coordinator shall attend a special training session within one hundred sixty (160) days of being appointed.
(2) The Director of the State Board of Election Commissioners shall ensure a special training is made available for any coordinator appointed more than thirty (30) days prior to the next election date established under Arkansas Code § 7-11-205.