This month, the EAC is highlighting:
- Celebrate National Poll Worker Recruitment Day!
- Resources for Election Officials on:
- Poll Worker Recruitment
- Communications
- Security
- Voter Education
- Save the Date:
- LLC Virtual Meeting on Tuesday, August 27, 2024
- EAC Accessibility Event on August 28
National Poll Worker Recruitment Day!
The EAC is celebrating National Poll Worker Recruitment Day today, August 1, and we are excited to see how election offices and organizations across the country participate. Whether you call them poll workers, election workers, election judges, or another term... these dedicated individuals help voting run smoothly and help Americans vote. Today we not only highlight the need for people to sign up, but we also recognize the amazing work poll workers do for each election in their community.
The EAC’s NPWRD toolkit with customizable social media graphics, video templates, outreach/communication templates, and other resources, is available today and after this day of action to support election offices’ needs for election workers.
In a new EAC video series on recruiting poll workers, Vice Chair Donald Palmer lead discussions with election leaders from across the country on poll worker mentorship, innovations in recruitment, and the commitment of long serving poll workers to their community. In this series, he spoke with Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales; Sherry Poland, Director of the Hamilton County Board of Elections in Ohio; Katharine Clark, Santa Fe County Clerk in New Mexico; and Marie Esche, a 100-year-old poll worker from Pasco County, Florida. Watch the series here.
2024 Presidential Election Readiness Series for New Election Officials
This new EAC resource is designed to provide timely information as new election officials prepare for the complexities of administering a presidential election. Each installment of this four-part series includes a video with EAC Commissioners interviewing industry leaders and election officials, and a complimentary resource checklist.
The topics include:
- Election Mail
- Communications
- Early Voting and Election Day Preparation
- Trust, Transparency, and Observers
Find the videos and corresponding resources here!
The EAC Releases Communications Training Series for Election Officials
“Communications 101 for Election Officials” is a free, on-demand video training series covering tools and strategies election officials can use to communicate with voters and other stakeholders.
These videos highlight best practices for election officials when communicating critical voting and election information to a variety of audiences - all based around election officials being a trusted source of information regardless of the jurisdiction's size and available resources. Each video, available on the EAC’s YouTube channel, is between three and five minutes long and is designed to fit into an election official’s busy schedule.
The series and other Communications 101 resources are available here.
New Toolkit to Support Voter Education and Communications