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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

EAC Announces New College Poll Worker Program

The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is awarding a total of $750,000 in grants for programs that encourage college students to serve as poll workers as part of it’s HAVA College Poll Worker Program. The program will award up to 50 grants of no less than $10,000 each.

The College Program grants are authorized under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) to encourage student participation as poll workers or assistants, to foster student interest in the elections process, and to encourage state and local governments to use students as poll workers. The grants also aim to relieve poll worker shortages.

To fulfill is mandate of serving as a national clearinghouse of information about election administration, the EAC has issued several best practices guidebooks to help election officials recruit, train, and retain poll workers. The guidebooks include:

• Successful Practices for Poll Worker Recruitment, Training, and Retention
• A Guidebook for Recruiting College Poll Workers
• Poll Worker Requirements by State

Read NPAction’s Poll Worker's Notes on Elections, Democracy, and Nonprofits to learn more about the experience of working the polls on Election Day, as described by an OMB Watch staffer.