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Jonathan Brater, Director of Elections Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson Poll Worker Recruitment 2020: Workforce Development and Training National Association of Secretaries of State Elections Committee, January 31, 2020 Challenge: More,


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Poll Worker Recruitment 2020: Workforce Development and Training

Jonathan Brater, Director of Elections Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson

National Association of Secretaries of State Elections Committee, January 31, 2020

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Challenge: More, Higher-Skill Election Workers

  • Talent recruitment
  • Training new and existing workforce
  • Landscape
  • 1,520 city and township clerks
  • 83 county clerks
  • 6,400 voting locations/precincts

Jocelyn Benson, Secretary of State Department of State

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Legacy + New Challenges

  • Legacy challenges
  • Technology barriers
  • Understanding legal requirements
  • Accommodation/Problem solving
  • New challenges
  • Same-Day registration and no-reason AV voting
  • Mail ballot processing (expected increase from 25 to 50 percent)
  • Satellite offices

Jocelyn Benson, Secretary of State Department of State

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Recruitment Opportunities

  • Needs and Potential Partners
  • Technical skill (high schools and colleges)
  • Legal training (Law firms and law schools)
  • Customer service + problem solving (Energy, financial, State of Michigan)
  • State and Local Models
  • Online voter registration/Michigan voter information center
  • Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission
  • Local clerk websites

Jocelyn Benson, Secretary of State Department of State

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Matching Workforce with Clerk Needs

  • Clerk Assessment
  • Current recruiting models
  • Workforce deployment
  • Lean process improvement
  • Solutions
  • Portal matching applicants with clerks
  • Private sector models: job sites, residency matching
  • Surplus talent distribution

Jocelyn Benson, Secretary of State Department of State

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Supplementing Local Training

  • Enhanced train-the-trainer
  • Model testing and evaluation
  • Deployment of Department of State resourses

Jocelyn Benson, Secretary of State Department of State