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Recruit poll workers & Election Day observers
States often have problems recruiting enough poll workers and getting a diverse pool. Therefore, it is important that nonprofits help recruit poll workers that are informed of all the new laws and can help guarantee that all votes count. Nonprofits should help states recruit poll workers that are capable of handling all responsibilities of the new law. After recruitment, nonprofits can work with the state to train poll workers for Election Day.
Nonprofits should help states recruit poll workers that are capable of handling all responsibilities of the new law. After recruitment, nonprofits can work with the state to train poll workers for Election Day.
- Poll workers should know laws on ID requirements, provisional ballot laws, and second chance voting laws. They also will need working knowledge of the statewide up-to-date electronic list of all eligible voters, and make sure all polling places post educational information for voters.
- While states must put training systems in place for poll workers and other election officials, nonprofits can work to ensure that the system put in place is uniform and nondiscriminatory toward voters.
- There also might be opportunities for nonprofit organizations to work with the state and local election offices to provide poll worker trainings.
Nonprofits can place staff and volunteers at polling sites to ensure that all HAVA regulations are carried out and that all voters receive equal treatment when determining:
- who is offered provisional ballots,
- whose provisional ballots are counted,
- how second-chance voting works,
- who may provide assistance to voters in the polling booth,
- who is asked for identification at the polls,
- what forms of identification are accepted upon registration and at the polls,
- how registration applications are processed and approved,
- how voters names are removed from the rolls because of ineligibility or duplication, and,
- how voter education requirements are carried out.
- Election Day Observation
- Observation Scorecards and Guidelines
- League of Women Voters
- Poll Workers for Democracy
- Be A Poll Worker from EAC