Serve Your Community as an Election Worker

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Clerk’s Office is seeking dedicated, community-minded individuals to serve as election workers for borough elections held every year on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November. Election workers play a vital role in ensuring that every election is conducted fairly, accurately, and in full compliance with Borough Code and state law. Each precinct is staffed by a team of at least three election judges—one of whom is designated as the precinct chair. All election workers work under the direction and supervision of the election administrator – the Borough Clerk.

What election workers do:

• Prepare the polling location: Before the polls open, workers setup the voting equipment, voting booths, and supplies and post necessary signs and notices
• Welcome and process voters: Workers greet voters, verify their registration and identification, and issue ballots.
• Provide instruction and assistance: Workers demonstrate how to use voting equipment, explain voting procedures, and assist voters with special needs
• Help ensure accuracy and transparency throughout the election process
• Close the polls and account for ballots: After the polls close, workers complete the closing procedures, account for all ballots, transmit election results and deliver materials to the regional election office.
• Attend mandatory training: Prior to each election, all workers must attend a paid training session to learn current election laws and procedures.

Qualifications:

• Must be a qualified voter of the borough. 
• Be residents of the precinct in which they will work, when possible. 
• Be willing to work approximate 16-hour day or more on Election Day OR share a position and work a split shift and attend a one to two hour paid training session.
• Be willing to remain non-partisan on Election Day and NOT express any political opinions while on the job.
• Cannot have a familial relationship with a candidate on the ballot.*

*Please note that candidates for office are not permitted to serve as election officials, and certain close familial relationships with a candidate may also prevent placement at a polling location to ensure impartiality and maintain public trust.

Serving as an election worker is a meaningful opportunity to support democracy at the local level, assist your neighbors, and contribute to the integrity of the Borough’s elections. If you are interested in serving, we encourage you to apply.

Positions:

Chairperson or Co-Chairperson
Responsible for overseeing the Election Day operations at an assigned polling place. This includes recruiting, managing and working with election workers assigned to the polling place, coordination of site access, picking up supplies, setting up equipment and opening the polls, assisting and processing voters, completing the closing procedures, transmitting election results and ensuring the ballots, voting materials, supplies and voting equipment are secured and returned to the borough.

Poll Worker
Responsible for assisting the Chairperson and Co-Chairperson in the polling place operations. This includes setting up equipment and supplies, assisting and processing voters, and assisting in the closing procedures.

Absentee Voting Official
Work at an absentee voting station beginning two weeks prior to Election Day through Election Day.

Canvass Review Board
The Canvass Review Board meets in public session for approximately three weeks beginning one week prior to an election, on an as-needed basis, to review, verify and process absentee, questioned and by-mail ballots, as well as reviews the tallies of each precinct’s recorded votes.