Election Training is Underway!

For the first time ever in Galveston County, over 95% of our election workers attended training. In past years the average has been between 50-60%!

The Elections Division has completely revamped its election worker training, increasing it from three to four hours. These sessions introduce the new electronic poll books to workers and instructs them on what to expect during this November's Vote Center Election.

Also included in the training is an hour of real life election worker hands on experience presenting them with real voters who will stretch their knowledge!

During Election Training [above] election Workers face real life voting situations that need to be solved.

In addition there has been a change in the compensation election workers will receive. Those who are unable to attend training will receive $2 less per hour than those workers who complete the four hour session. In addition, the County Clerk has decided that those election workers who spend over forty hours a week (e.g., those staffing the polls during early voting) processing voters should be paid time and a half for any hours worked over forty, the same as all the other county employees would receive.

"This is a new policy," County Clerk Dwight D. Sullivan said, "and it is the right thing to do. These folks work hard and work long hours and they should be appropriately compensated."