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Missouri Poll Worker Trainers
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MU Community Development faculty throughout the state
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Adult Learning
This training module is designed to help you improve your overall
training, and explore different learning styles and techniques for training poll
workers while confronting barriers and realities that exist in achieving
your training goals. This section is tailored specifically for the benefit
of election officials and those involved in training poll workers. The
challenge of exploring new and innovative training styles will be seen
throughout the whole training day, participants will be involved in a very
interactive and fun training environment.
The Poll Worker Training consists of the following modules to be delivered to poll workers. Trainers will demonstrate options for delivering each module while teaching you content material that may be new to you.
Voter Customer Service, Civil Rights and Diversity
Learn new ways of handling these issues in your own poll worker
training. You will also have the opportunity to discuss some of your own
personal experiences and ideas relating to these challenging issues.
Procedures, Ballot Handling and Security
You will have a chance to see how this very technical procedures
section can become exciting, interesting and very easy to teach through
interactive training methods such as games and small group interaction.
Provisional Voting
Learn about provisional voting and ways of preparing election poll
workers to effectively determine which voters are eligible to vote
provisional ballot and how to appropriately complete the ballot envelope.
Services to Voters with Disabilities and Special Needs:
Explore appropriate use of language in serving voters with disabilities as
well as how to effectively and properly provide assistance.
Updated 10/11/07