What are the responsibilities and job description for the Election Worker position at City of Killeen, TX?
Job Description
GENERAL PURPOSE
Election Workers are essential to ensuring that elections are conducted ethically, legally, and successfully.
SUPERVISION EXERCISED
Dependent on election worker position
Essential Duties
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Early Voting
Deputy Early Voting Clerk
- Assists the Early Voting Clerk (City Secretary) in conduct of early voting
- Performs duties and tasks synonymous to those of an Election Day Presiding Judge
- Each early voting location will be assigned a Lead Deputy Early Voting Clerk who will be responsible for the overall conduct of early voting and will handle the assignment of duties at that specific location
Presiding Judge
- Hires election clerks and coordinates work activities
- Attends and completes required training
- Oversees their assigned precinct polling location
- On Election Day, the Presiding Judge is assisted by at least two (2) election clerks, one of whom serves as the Alternate Presiding Judge
- Organizing the polling location before the polls open
- Ensuring that qualified voters are permitted to vote
- Checking in and processing voters
- Distributing ballots to registered voters
- Providing instructions and assistance to voters
- Answering voters’ questions
- Explaining the use of the voting equipment
- Maintaining order in the polling location on Election Day
- Obtaining results after the polls are closed and securing the polling location
- Maintaining the security of the polling location
- Attends and completes required training
- Assists the Presiding Judge in the orderly operation of the polling location
- Clerks often serve as the required bilingual member of precinct staff
- The Presiding Judge assigns the duties of the clerk
- Organizing the polling location before the polls open
- Ensuring that qualified voters are permitted to vote
- Checking in and processing voters
- Distributing ballots to registered voters
- Providing instructions and assistance to voters
- Answering voters’ questions
- Explaining the use of the voting equipment
- Maintaining order in the polling location on Election Day
- Obtaining results after the polls are closed and securing the polling location
The Early Voting Ballot Board (EVBB) and Central Counting Station (CCS) consists of one (1) Presiding Judge, one (1) Alternate Judge, and one (1) additional Member/Clerk.
Presiding Judge:
- Hires additional members of the EVBB/CCS and coordinates work activities
- Attends and completes required training
- Notifies voters of rejected ballots
- Resolves questions of voter intent for irregularly marked ballots
- Participates in EVBB’s activities
- Attends and completes required training
- Determines whether a ballot may be accepted
- Reviews provisional ballots
- Counts early voting and provisional ballots
Required Minimum Qualifications
REQUIRED MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Election Code Sec. 11.002. defines a QUALIFIED VOTER as:
(a) In this code, "qualified voter" means a person who:
(1) is 18 years of age or older;
(2) is a United States citizen;
(3) has not been determined by a final judgment of a court exercising probate jurisdiction to be:
(A) totally mentally incapacitated; or
(B) partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote;
(4) has not been finally convicted of a felony or, if so convicted, has:
(A) fully discharged the person's sentence, including any term of incarceration, parole, or supervision, or completed a period of probation ordered by any court; or
(B) been pardoned or otherwise released from the resulting disability to vote;
(5) is a resident of this state; and
(6) is a registered voter.
(b) For purposes of Subsection (a)(4), a person is not considered to have been finally convicted of an offense for which the criminal proceedings are deferred without an adjudication of guilt.
Early Voting
Deputy Early Voting Clerk:
- Must be a qualified voter of the City of Killeen
- Must be able to converse in the English language
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Must complete the following training courses provided by the Texas Secretary of State:
- Online Poll Worker Training-ES&S
- Texas Poll Watcher Online Training
- Must attend in-person training hosted by the City of Killeen City Secretary’s Office
Election Day
Presiding Judge and Alternate Judge:
- Must be a qualified voter of the election precinct they are working
- Must be able to converse in the English language
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Must complete the following training courses provided by the Texas Secretary of State:
- Online Poll Worker Training-ES&S
- Texas Poll Watcher Online Training
- Must attend in-person training hosted by the City of Killeen City Secretary’s Office
- Must be a qualified voter of the City of Killeen
- Must be able to converse in the English language
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Must complete the following training courses provided by the Texas Secretary of State:
- Online Poll Worker Training-ES&S
- Texas Poll Watcher Online Training
- Must attend in-person training hosted by the City of Killeen City Secretary’s Office
- Must be a qualified voter in the State of Texas
- Must be able to converse in the English and Spanish language
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Must complete the following training courses provided by the Texas Secretary of State:
- Online Poll Worker Training-ES&S
- Texas Poll Watcher Online Training
- Must attend in-person training hosted by the City of Killeen City Secretary’s Office
- Be at least 16 years old on Election Day
- Be enrolled in a public, private, or qualified home school
- Be a U.S. citizen
- Have consent of his/her parent or legal guardian to work the election
- Have consent of his/her school principal (or parent/legal guardian for home-schooled students)
- Must be able to converse in the English language
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Must complete the following training courses provided by the Texas Secretary of State:
- Online Poll Worker Training-ES&S
- Texas Poll Watcher Online Training
- Must attend in-person training hosted by the City of Killeen City Secretary’s Office
Presiding Judge, Alternate Judge and Additional Member/Clerk
- Must be a qualified voter of the City of Killeen
- Must be able to converse in the English language
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Must complete the following training courses provided by the Texas Secretary of State:
- Online Poll Worker Training-ES&S
- Texas Poll Watcher Online Training
- Online Central Council Station Training
- Online Early Voting Ballot Board Training
- Must attend in-person training hosted by the City of Killeen City Secretary’s Office
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
1. Successful completion of the Secretary of State Online Poll Worker Training Program
2. City of Killeen Election Worker Training
Supplemental Information
TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT USED
ES&S Election Equipment
- DS200
- ExpressVote
- Electronic Pollbook (ePollbook)
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk, and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or operate objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell.
The employee must periodically lift and/or move more than 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
