Challenges to Fair Elections 5: Poll Worker Training
Contributing Organization(s): Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action
Author(s)/Creator(s): Democracy Program Staff
Publishing Date: 2006-10-25
Issue Areas: Government Reform
Ownership/Rights Info: Copyright Demos 2006
If elections are the foundation of our democracy, then poll workers are the gears and wheels that make the mechanics of democracy function on Election Day. Regrettably, this human factor is often overlooked and under-supported. States squeak by each year with a bare minimum of poll workers who receive inadequate training for an increasingly complex task. Recent surveys, press accounts, and troubled primary elections attest to the problem.
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Type/Format: Policy Brief
Language code: English
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Language code: English
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