City Seeks More Than 1,000 Additional Pollworkers

The following press release is issued by the Los Angeles Office of the City Clerk Election Division:

The city needs approximately 1,300 additional pollworkers to staff polls for the 2013 General Municipal Election and special elections on May 21, City Clerk June Lagmay announced April 22. Spanish or Korean bilingual pollworkers are especially needed in Council Districts 1, 3, 9, and 13.

The Election Division expects to place approximately 6,400 pollworkers to work this election and will place these pollworkers at polling locations in the jurisdiction of the City of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Unified School District, and/or the Los Angeles Community College District.

Pollworkers earn stipends for each election day they work. Inspectors receive a $100 stipend and are paid an additional $25 for attending a mandatory training class and another $50 for picking up and dropping off polling place supplies and voting equipment. Clerks receive an $80 stipend and an additional $25 for attending a mandatory training class.

In order to serve as a pollworker, the applicant must be a U.S. citizen and registered voter who will be at least 18 years old on Election Day, and is able to speak, read, and write in English.

In addition to English-speaking pollworkers, the Election Division seeks bilingual pollworkers who speak English and one of nine non-English languages including Armenian, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai or Vietnamese.

Applicants may sign up by calling the Election Division’s Pollworker Recruitment Hotline toll free at (866) 899-VOTE (8683) or locally at (213) 978-0363.  An online pollworker application is also available on the Election Division’s website http://clerk.lacity.org/Elections in the “Pollworkers” section.