Poll-worker Project:
Poll Worker Deadline was Nov. 30thBut You Can STILL Sign Up
to be a Fill-in Poll Worker!
Submit your name to your County Party Chairman
NOW
to be a Poll Worker!!
Poll-workers are responsible for the actual conduct of our elections. They are selected by local election or municipal clerks to work for a two-year election cycle. A poll-worker actually works for their community, is paid a small salary and will receive training from the
local election clerk. You can also work as an unpaid volunteer. Many communities also offer flexible scheduling if you are unable to work an entire day.
Wisconsin state law requires that the two majority political parties (Republican and Democrat) accept the responsibility to provide names of poll-worker volunteers to the local clerks. These volunteers are considered the first-choice volunteers to be selected. If you wish to volunteer through your local political party, call or e-mail your County Party Chairman and ask to have your name submitted. Check out wisgop.org and scroll to the bottom of the page. Look for the heading "other resources" and click on "County Parties". Find your county and send an e-mail to the County Party Chairman.
If you wish to volunteer on your own, call your local election clerk's office to submit your name.
The deadline for submitting poll-worker names for this cycle was November 30th, 2011. We encourage you to volunteer at any time as there is a great need for additional poll-workers and those who previously volunteered may, for one reason or another, be unable to fulfill their two-year commitment. Your name would then be on the list for consideration as the need arises.
The next two-year cycle will be 2012-2013. Your name must be submitted to your County Party Chairman by November 15th, 2011 to be on the list for consideration.
It is extremely important that you volunteer to be a poll-worker. Our current poll-workers across the state have an average age of 72. It will be necessary to recruit more young poll-workers to keep our polling places staffed. As a poll-worker, you will be working on the front lines in the election as an actual election official, and you will be perfectly placed to ensure that our elections are clean, fair and transparent!
Please also consider becoming a Special Voting Deputy. SVD's are trained poll workers who go out into the community prior to Election Day and conduct actual elections in nursing homes, retirement homes and community-based residential facilities. It is so important to be an SVD - it is in these types of facilities where election irregularities are most likely to be found. Becoming an SVD ensures that these elections, where fraud is the most easily committed, are conducted properly and are great examples of fairness and transparency.
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