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We may not have reached the record turnout we had hoped for on Nov. 4, but we did have a record number of help at the polls on Election Day!
We had over 2,800 Election Officers (including students) at the polls – 2,876 to be exact! Combined with the number of Field Technicians, Ride Along Coordinators (Field Tech Assistants), and Receiving Station personnel, the total number of election workers actually exceeded 3,000.
That’s a historic number for the San Mateo County Elections Office! Previous election worker numbers usually stayed closer to about 2,000. The greater numbers really helped us to keep the lines tamed throughout Election Day.
A special thank you note to our poll workers will arrive in mailboxes by Thanksgiving!
Categories: Elections Office · Poll workers · Polling place · Uncategorized
Tagged: election officers, Poll Worker Appreciation, Poll workers, student poll workers
If you didn’t get a chance to check out Wild 94.9’s “Keyword:Community” program yesterday, check out the podcast now available for download or streaming by clicking here. We’re on the program dated April 20.
San Mateo County’s democracyLIVE! Coordinator sat in with Wild 94.9’s Jon Manuel and Anna Uribe to talk about how high school students can get involved with the elections process by joining the student poll worker program.
If you haven’t read our previous posts, the program was designed to offer students a hands-on experience that provides an inside look at how American democracy works.
To learn more about how to participate in democracyLIVE!, contact our democracyLIVE! Coordinator by sending an email or calling 650-599-1335. You can also visit the Elections website at www.shapethefuture.org/democracylive.
Categories: Outreach · Poll workers · Shape the Future · Web Stuff We Like · democracyLIVE
Tagged: democracyLIVE, Poll workers, student poll workers, students
January 22, 2008 · 1 Comment
Thanks to democracyLIVE! 2008, high school students all over the county are getting ready to witness, well, democracy live on Election Day.
About four hundred of them have signed up for the program, which provides students who are at least 16 years old the opportunity to be poll workers on Election Day. They represent 23 public and private schools – nearly all in the county.
In trainings after school, they’ve been learning how to set up, take down and operate eSlates, the county’s electronic voting machines. Of course, being the millenials that they are, they actually need little instruction on anything remotely technical.
Such was the case last week at Menlo-Atherton High School, where a two-hour training class of a dozen students had little trouble setting up eSlates and casting votes on them in a mock election of dead presidents. John Adams seemed to be the favorite, followed by the students’ Write-Ins of each other.
Utterances of “this is so cool!” and “I want to vote again!” were frequent.
But there was plenty of serious sit-at-your-desk instruction too, with Cynthia Greer from the Elections Office explaining the party-driven nature of primaries. She broke down critical Election Day procedures like checking in voters using the street index and roster, and offered quick lessons in how to best provide assistance.
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Categories: Election Day/Night · Outreach · Poll workers · Training · eSlates
Tagged: democracyLIVE! 2008, eSlates, Menlo-Atherton High School, millenials, student poll workers
We may not have reached the record turnout we had hoped for on Nov. 4, but we did have a record number of help at the polls on Election Day!
