Approve Poll Workers for the 2016 Primary and General Elections as indicated on the attached list and authorize the Elections Director to make substitutions as necessary prior to each election, to ensure that all Vote Centers are staffed adequately with trained election poll workers.

A.R.S. 16-531 requires the approval of poll workers prior to the election.  The Elections Department has made a concerted effort to provide continuity across elections during the 2016 election cycle by maintaining the same election poll workers from election to election, making adjustments only when necessary.  Examples of when a substitution may be necessary are those instances where a poll worker is not available for a specific election, or a poll worker is not effective in the role assigned, or a dispute arises among a group of poll workers, or where fewer poll workers are needed for a board for a specific election.  Another instance in which a situation may call for a substitution is where a poll worker received training and worked one election, but is replaced by another worker who did not have an opportunity to work the first election.  Cross-training is imperative.  It is important to maintain a flexible, trained pool of poll workers to call on in the event that a Special election is called.

Move forward with the training of the Poll Workers on the attached list; substitute as necessary, based on special circumstances.

Poll workers not approved by the Board will be replaced.

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