Poll Workers needed in Alameda County

Written by: Cyril Allen on Aug 27, 2006 3:48 PM EDT

Linked to groups: East Bay for Democracy

Thanks to CBS5.com [1] for posting this on their website:

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ALAMEDA COUNTY NEEDS POLL WORKERS FOR NOV. 7
08/25/06 8:15 PDT

The Alameda County registrar of voters is in need of 4,000 poll workers to help staff its 830 polling places that will be open on Election Day, Nov. 7.

The county's plan to use paper ballots that are fed into optical scanning machines rather than electronic touch-screen voting machines is adding to the call for help, because the vote-counting method for paper ballots is slower.

"Our effort to recruit poll workers is beginning earlier than usual,'' Alameda County's acting Registrar of Voters Dave Macdonald said in a statement. "We need to bring people on board early so we can get them fully trained and comfortable using the new system by the time the election rolls around.''

Potential poll workers must be registered to vote in California and will be paid between $95 and $150 for a day's work. High school seniors over age 16 are eligible to work through the county's student poll worker program.

Anyone interested in being a poll worker should call the registrar at (510) 272-6971.
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In addition, you can go to the County Registrar's website [2] to get information. Following are links to the County's online application [3] and their downloadable application [4] (PDF).

Cross-posted at DL/Oakland [5] -- your local progressive social club. Drop by and pay us a visit during one of our semi-monthly meet ups.


Links from this post:
[1] cbs5.com/localwire/localfsnews/b...
[2] www.acgov.org/rov/workers.htm...
[3] www.acgov.org/rov/workers_app.ht...
[4] www.acgov.org/rov/app.pdf...
[5] oakland.drinkingliberally.org...

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