I highly recommend becoming a poll worker in your community for the November election, and those to come. From my experience, they are always looking for additional volunteers (you do get paid but it’s average $9-15 and hour) since the main demographic for election workers are retired senior citizens. Elections are drawing in more and more people and it is overwhelming to a lot of the election workers, especially with the constant changes such as the influx in absentee ballots.
Becoming an election worker is quite simple. Go down to your city hall or municipal building (or send an email) and ask them if they are looking for volunteers for upcoming elections at YOUR polling location. They will have you come down, chat with them briefly, fill out employment papers and most likely get you signed up for some trainings. The trainings are not very time consuming.
Depending on the size of your community, they may ask you to come in the Saturday before an election to prep the Poll Books. This usually means logging in all of the absentee ballots that have been received and giving them a unique voter ID in the books. This does not mean purging voter roles, etc. That is supposed to been done ahead of time by the city clerk, I believe. However, these are great questions to ask when you become an election worker!
On Election Day, expect to be there for 16+ hours. Depending on how many election workers you have at your location you may work in shifts. However, my experience has been working the full duration due to a lack of volunteers. You’ll arrive typically at 6AM (1 hour before voting starts, sometimes earlier) to get set up and organized. During the set up is typically when everyone working decides, or is told, where they will be stationed. You’ll most always be paired up in groups of two or more.
Stations include (not all are listed below, just the key ones): New voter registration: This person needs to be familiar with local maps to determine if individuals are voting in the right place. Again, you’ll most likely be paired with an experienced worker, so it will be fine and you’ll learn quickly. Poll Book: This job is the most fast paced and critical. Highly recommend if you are younger and able to handle mildly stressful situations and distractions that you volunteer for this station. You will be responsible for verifying the voter has a valid photo ID and have them verbally confirm their name and address. Then you will need to find them in the poll book, give them a voter number and sign the book. It is EXTREMELY important to keep an organized poll book, ensuring the accurate voter numbers. If it is busy, recommend keeping small talk with the voters to a minimum so as not to get distracted and make a mistake in the book. You’ll be working with another individual who has a copy of the book and it is encouraged to state out loud the page number the voter is found on, along with the voter number for every voter. This helps keep both individuals on track. Ballot Distributor: This is the most laid back station. Your responsibility will be to hand out the ballots and explain how they are to vote; I.e. if it is a Partisian primary you tell them it is a one party ballot where if you cross over between parties your ballot will be rejected. Machine Supervisor: You’re responsible for making sure the counter takes each ballot and if something is wrong, you work to correct the issue. Either by seeing if the ballot was improperly filled out which caused the rejection or if it is a malfunction with the machine.This person will periodically check that the number of votes on the machine/s matches the number of voters in the poll book. This helps ensure accurate reconciliation at the end of the night and can make finding an error much easier if it is spotted early.
Once the polls close, expect to be there for 2+ hours. This process includes hand counting (at least where I’ve worked) the ballots to ensure the totals match the Poll Book and the vote tabulator, organizing the ballots, modeming the results to the respective location, printing out the voter roles from the machine, signing all documents, packing everything up, and cleaning up.
This is a great way to meet those in your community, get familiar with the process, have oversight, and do your part. Get out there, frens!
This is one of the most important posts on the board today. THIS is a major part of how we beat the bad guys, folks. We need honest people working the polls. Check my user name.
We also need to have an understanding that we work together, promote together, and keep down the commie scum wherever they attempt the same.
For example, get in a supervisor position? Hire/promote MAGA. Find pretext to fire commies. Keep it all on the up and up and before you know it, we're everywhere. Fire you? Too bad. You hired 20 good guys before they popped ya. Now go elsewhere where another pede will take ya. Rinse, lather, and repeat.
Gatekeeping is their greatest strength, let's level the field a bit.
Good point. We need to take this approach with everything. Food: grow your own or buy from local farmers. Services: Find good family-owned small businesses. Do everything possible to shut out the bad guys and only deal with honest people.
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Freedom isn't free. Do your part.
Found on GAB: An idea: I have many acquaintances who are conservative and would vote for the right people if they knew who the right people were. The problem is, they have no idea what is going on in the world. They don't read the news. Their hearts are just not in politics. So, at voting time they kind of flounder around, maybe they'll vote the RNC flyer or ask around. I can't believe I'm the only one surrounded by people like this. At least one person I know, isn't even aware that Trump's house was raided. Yet, she would vote MAGA if she knew who the MAGA candidate was.
So, my idea is that we have our own personal influence project to inform them who to vote for and why. Taking the people on the ballot and researching their voting history and stances, writing it up, and giving our friends something written for when they go to vote, might be an effective way to assist the cause. It could be simple: "Joe Blow voted to impeach" is all it would take. It would be truly grass-roots. #PersonalInfluenceProject #PIP
I worked at two different ones in Wisconsin. Both followed the law. In the community that I worked in November 2020, Trump easily won.
Now, here is what one of co-workers told me when she worked at polling places in Milwaukee in previous elections. BTW, she thought our community was too strict.
She said Milwaukee had different procedures:
BTW, there were several BLUE ads on Youtube advertising for poll workers. I think they want to hire 100,000s of them. This is the same sort of ads that I saw during 2020 and look what happened then. I hope this is not deja vu for November. I just get a bad feeling that they will rig it so much that Trump supported candidates will lose big time in the November. They will claim it abortion rights, inflation plan working, J6, blah, blah, blah.
Right now, they are saying Barnes will win Senate seat over Johnson because 1) Johnson is conspiracy theorist questioning 2020 election and 2) Vos got reelected over the Trump supported candidate. (Vos is speaker? and does not want to decertify or overturn I suspect some irregularities in that election)
Just remember it is who/what counts the votes.
I’ve done this many times, but in 2020, in GA, thousands of election workers were brought in from liberal organizations like the ACLU. Plus, I was told repeatedly they did not need me, they had enough. Same for the senate runoff. When I contacted the GA GOP chairman he said that was not true, they did need people. More nevertrumpers at work I guess.
I really would like to know how one is able to observe the adjudication process because in GA, I believe it was a major part of the steal in addition to drop boxes and ballot harvesting. In Fulton county alone, around 90% of ballots were “adjudicated”, and at an offsite location. No one knows if they even had GOP observers there.
Thank you for explaining all the roles!
Are volunteers encouraged to vote early, or are they given time to go vote at their own polling location on election day?
You can vote on Election Day whenever there is downtime or during your lunch break.
This depends on the rules in your state, so answers may vary. Usually it is recommended that you vote early.
If you are assigned to work at your own polling place, then you may be able to vote there if it gets slow enough that you don't have a line. But in my opinion, that is poor optics, because people will see a poll worker putting a ballot in the ballot box.
Just vote early to prevent any of those issues with your own vote.
I just did it. Hopefully they contact me.
Also know that some counties have a check in crew, crews that go from polling site to polling site to ensure supplies are stocked, equipment is working and poll site is set up correctly with signage and access.
Early voting - usually 10 days of work if you have the time
Systems clerk - checks voters in
Floor judge - assists voter at tabulator
Exceptions judge - asst manager, time tracking and other responsibilities
Presiding judge - manager of site, most responsibility
The above description is my take on it, ive done all the roles a few times each and am under 40. Its a great feeling to know that you are taking part in the process. 95% of people ive worked with have left politics at the door and conduct themselves as Americans.
There are many roles to jump in and assist with! I will say that as a Presiding Judge im there at 4:30a and finish drop off after 11p. Its a long day but i do it every 6mos, its worth checking out
First Sticky! Thank you! Mildly cringing that I didn’t proof read before saving as I’m now seeing grammatical errors, but oh well! Lol
Thanks!
Thanks for posting this. I was encouraged by someone stating the same on PW, and I applied online that same day. It took about 30 days to get a response from my county, but I’ve been accepted to work for the midterms in November…I’m stoked to be a part of the election process!
Just received my new voter registration card and it was asking for people to participate. I am already planning on it!
Been a poll worker since the 2020 elections. It is a long day on Election Day bc we are not allowed to leave the precinct all day. But I will say it is well worth it. Plus you are paid a bit of money.
But to be truly honest the cheating that will go on will happen when no one is watching. In other words Where they count the total votes in the county and state. All I can say is we total up the votes at the end of Election Day we make sure we match ballots in machine to ATV forms And we also count up all spoiled and unused ballots to make sure there are no discrepancies. but so far I have seen no way to check them out as accurate AFTER we turn them in. Plus with early voting here there is no way to figure those totals into the whole as this is done at our county board of elections. What I want to know is who is watching those who count the votes!
I'm doing my part, but for doxxing purposes, I won't say where or what I'm doing. I will say that I'm receiving an acceptable paycheck for it and I look forward to the networking!
Get in where you fit in. These are the modern front lines and it's time we fight back in force.
USA!
Saving. See you in November!
I don't have the proper physique to be a poll worker... 😂
It's by opting out of the system in the first place that we're in this position.
The left works by deceiving people to think our rules and government agencies and everything else operate in a generally fair, albeit sometimes questionable, manner.
What happens when they have to do things like this raid? Or setup the Whitmer suckers? Or ignore BLM rioters that destroy their livelihoods with full immunity? They break that illusion bit by bit. Similar to how fake news is basically dead in a majority of American's minds.
If we keep the pressure on the institutions, they have to keep up the appearance of "fairness" or they lose authenticity in the eyes of the masses. In other words, they have to concede this ground like with DeSantis, Youngkin, Lake, and others.
Now that we keep taking ground, they have to start playing dirty. When that happens, the people, who don't rely on Fake News anymore, see that it's unfair and then ask "who is breaking our precious system?" It's the Dems. As it always is.
They are imploding, but be patient. Society changes at a much slower pace than any individual desires, but don't think for a second that your comment doesn't glow brighter than the sun at noon. We're not taking the bait.
Yes, I'm sure my account that was created during the .win Beta is glowing brightly. Or maybe I'm just tired of people doing the same things expecting different results. The election system needs to change and pretending it hasn't already lost credibility doesn't help anyone.