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How to be a poll worker
Poll workers ensure accurate elections and prepare the precinct by setting up voting equipments, verifying registrations and providing voters with appropriate ballots. They also close the precinct and prepare election materials for delivery to the elections office.
They must be registered to vote in the precinct or county they wish to serve. Some states allow college students to work at the polls near their school even if they are not registered to vote in that jurisdiction. Contact your local election office for more information.
Accessibility for voters with disabilities
Polling places are equipped to accommodate voters with disabilities by providing clearly marked parking spaces, accessible entrances and ramps and marked routes to voting locations. Voters with disabilities are also given the same opportunity for access, participation, privacy and independence. Contact your local election office for more details.
Language assistance
Voters with limited ability to read, speak, write or understand English may be provided with language assistance in polling places. These efforts may be voluntary or required by Federal law. It includes voting materials like ballots and instructions in other languages, staffing bilingual poll workers and providing voting information online in other languages. Contact your local election office for more information.
*EAC’s website provides information for voters in six languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese.
Request of assistance to vote
Voters that require assistance to vote by reason of blindness, disability or inability to read or write may bring a friend or a relative to assist them. A poll worker may also provide assistance when necessary. Provisions governing such assistance may vary therefore check your state or local elections office for details.
Voting equipment assistance
Voters may ask help from poll workers if they need assistance with voting equipment. They are there to provide voters with instructions and demonstrations in using voting machines.
*Federal law prohibits voters receiving assistance from their employer, officer or agent of the voter’s union.
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