Effective Training for Poll Workers

Poster

Nearly 20,000 poll workers served during the August primaries and the November presidential election in Missouri. Thanks to a new curriculum devised by University of Missouri Extension and training sessions conducted in cooperation with local election officials, poll workers were familiar with the new mandates of the 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA). Poll workers were armed with new knowledge and skills, such as ensuring access for those disabilities, providing provisional ballots and being sensitive to the needs of a diverse population. The process of curriculum development, processes used to engage regional faculty and county election officials in use of materials, and the results of the training and evaluations will be shared. Participants will also have the opportunity to view and engage in several of hands-on training pieces developed.

...importance of organizational learning in today's world, key facets to organizational learning (from the research), and implications for work with community organizations. Also to be shared is the role that top leaders and mid-level leaders played in fostering organizational learning for extension and the implications/transference that these findings have for community organizations.