Poll Workers Still Needed

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Are you an honest man or woman? Are you interested in politics? Is election integrity important to you?

If the answers to these questions are “yes,” “yes,” and “yes,” New York Families Foundation invites you to consider applying for a position as a poll worker.

According to the New York State Board of Elections, “poll workers prepare the polling place for voting, set up the voting equipment, check in and process voters, demonstrate voting procedures, and assist voters if they are requested to do so. After voting ends, poll workers close down the polling place and canvass and report election results. Poll workers get paid for time they receive training and on each day they work.”

Generally speaking, poll workers are required to be registered to vote in New York. Persons interested in serving as interpreters at the polls, however, are not required to be registered voters. If you are chosen as a poll worker in upstate New York, you will be assigned to work in your home county. If you are chosen as a poll worker in New York City, you will be assigned somewhere in New York City.

Poll workers perform an important function without which free and fair elections cannot occur. Christian New Yorkers should, if available, consider serving our neighbors as poll workers. This year, Election Day will be held on Tuesday, November 5; also, early voting will occur from October 26 through November 3. To apply to become a poll worker in New York City, please click here. To apply to become a poll worker in upstate New York, please click here.

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