The American Bar Association is collaborating with the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) and the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) to issue a call aimed at mobilizing lawyers to assist as poll workers. The Poll Worker, Esq. Initiative encourages lawyers, law students and other legal professionals to assist in upcoming elections.
“We’re calling on lawyers and law students to step up this November to serve as poll workers,” said ABA President Deborah Enix-Ross. “Every day lawyers work to protect the rule of law and the Constitution, so it makes sense that they would be essential for us to have a free and fair election.”
The initiative kicked off with the release of a video, posted at ambar.org/vote, that details how to sign up to be a poll worker.
A social media campaign is scheduled on the ABA’s Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, which will run through the fall. The hashtag for the effort is #PollWorkerEsq.
Visit www.canivote.org and click on the “Become a Poll Worker” tab..
Tasks may range from staffing polling places to processing ballot envelopes, and more. Poll worker training for lawyers may be eligible for Continuing Legal Education credit.
“As a lawyer and former administrative law judge, I know first-hand how important the American Bar Association can be to activate their members. Serving as a poll worker continues to be one of the most impactful ways to serve your community,” said
Tahesha Way, NASS president and New Jersey secretary of state. “I look forward to another successful collaboration and appreciate their willingness to help election officials across the country.”
“Every election, big or small, election officials across the country struggle to find poll workers to help staff voting locations, process and tabulate ballots, and perform other important duties. We’re excited to work with the American Bar Association again to encourage lawyers and law students across the country to step up and take on this critical responsibility to our democracy,” said Meagan Wolfe, NASED president and administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
The ABA’s Standing Committee on Election Law is dedicated to developing and examining ways to improve the federal electoral process in order to permit the broadest, least restrictive access by all eligible Americans to the ballot box and to ensure all those votes are counted.
National Association of Secretaries of State is the nation’s oldest nonpartisan professional organization for public officials.
National Association of State Election Directors is a nonpartisan, nonprofit membership association for state election directors in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the five U.S. territories.
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