Heads up to all the Veterans

Seeking Veterans for the midterm elections

Poll workers can make around $200 per day

September 12, 2022

Mike Richman

Writer on detail with VA's Veterans Experience Office

*This news post originally published in 2022,but was edited in June 2024 to reflect the same need for the 2024 election.

As political candidates jockey for support during the stretch run to the U.S. midterm elections on November 8 (2022), state and local officials are scrambling to staff polling sites with election volunteers. Major indicators are projecting a massive poll worker shortage for the 2022 midterms and beyond.

Aware of this potential crisis, the Vet the Vote campaign is seeking to recruit 100,000 Veterans and military family members to be poll workers in the 2022 midterms and other future elections. Vet the Vote is a coalition of 26 Veteran and military service organizations and four civic groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Football League (NFL).

More than 1 million volunteers are needed to run national elections. If only 10% of the 17 million American Veterans enlisted as poll workers, that would easily fill the void of any poll worker shortage.

“Poll workers tend to come from our senior citizen population, and concerns regarding COVID-19 have understandably decreased volunteerism among that population,” said Air Force Veteran Anil Nathan, an executive director of the nonprofit group We the Veterans, which organized the campaign. “In general, though, there’s a constant need to mobilize new poll workers, and we would like to see the Veteran and military family community make volunteering as poll workers a new norm of public service within our community.”

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https://news.va.gov/108631/elections_vet_the_vote/