How Do I become an Election Worker?
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| The Need! | In a normal countywide election cycle we need more than 500 election workers to staff the polls, both Early Voting and Election Day locations. | |
| What do Election Workers Do? | Clerks: Clerks do a variety of tasks; everything from checking in voters, verifying their identification and their address, and determining if a voter needs to complete any forms before voting, issuing access codes that allow a voter to vote. Judges: The Presiding Judge of the polling place is responsible for all activities in the voting location. This includes assigning the responsibilities of the clerks, answering voter's questions, ensuring that there is no electioneering taking place, handling provisional ballots, and overseeing the administrative duties. Unlike other election workers, the Presiding Judge has the same authority as a District Court Judge. All election workers help with preparing the polls for voting, help set up the voting equipment, open and close the polling location, help demonstrate voting equipment, and assisting voters. |
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| Do I Qualify to Be an Election Worker? | If you are a registered voter in Galveston County then you are qualified to serve as an election worker. During local entity elections, workers must live within the jurisdiction they are serving. So, for example, if we need a worker in a Bayou Vista election we will be looking for registered voters who live there. We are particularly looking for election workers who are conversant in both English and Spanish. |
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| What Are Some of the Elections in which I might serve? | Galveston County is responsible for conducting elections in November of each year. In odd numbered years we normally conduct Constitutional Amendment elections. In even numbered years the elections can include either the Gubernatorial or Presidential race. In the even numbered years we also are responsible for Early Voting in the Primary and Primary Runoff elections. Local entities also contract with the County Elections Division to conduct their elections. These types of elections are often held in May but can be held jointly with us during a November election. | |
| How will I know what to do? | We will provide you with training. Each election worker is given four hours of classroom training and hands on experience. In addition, new clerks are placed with experienced judges who will provide additional guidance. | |
| Where will I work? | That could depend upon the type of election and upon you! For example, in precinct based elections we will try to place you near where you live. However, if we are talking about a Vote Center election, then you could be asked to serve anywhere in the County. That said, we always work with you to find a location where you want to serve. | |
| Will I be paid? | When you work in an election for which the County is responsible you will be paid $10 per hour. For a typical Election Day, a worker will be paid about $130. If a worker is serving during Early Voting the amount of pay could be as much as $1,100. In addition, workers serving in County elections are paid $10 per hour for attending training. | |
So, are you interested?
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