2024 - Winner for Best Practices in Recruiting, Retaining, and Training Poll Workers

Due to federal and local requirements, LA County must recruit election workers in 18 languages. This brings many challenges as each vote center has different language needs. To address these challenges, LA County developed a Multilingual Election Worker Recruitment Tool that allows both election recruitment staff and outside partners to see multilingual worker needs displayed geographically on a dashboard. The tool has brought many benefits, such as the ability to share links with community partners for more effective recruitment and the ability for multilingual election worker recruitment staff to quickly match volunteers to the specific areas in need. Since the dashboard is built from Google applications, it is easy to manage, cost-effective, and would be easy to replicate.