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

Louisiana has struggled to recruit the necessary number of poll workers for elections across the state - a problem that isnt unique to the Sportsmans Paradise. Coupled with an aging population of current poll workers, this problem will only become more acute as time passes. Combined with efforts to educate voters at the polling place, the Secretary of States Office launched a poll worker recruitment program at 20 early voting sites in six parishes. While voters waited in line, election commissioners provided them with poll worker interest cards that voters could deposit into a receptacle as they left the polling site. This helped the election office contact those interested in becoming poll workers. The initiative resulted in nearly 1,000 voters signing up to serve as commissioners at an average age of 53 years oldmore than 10 years younger than the current average.