JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville City Council has passed a resolution honoring nearly 2,000 local poll workers and recognizing August 11 as National Poll Worker Recruitment Day.<\/p>\n
Duval County Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland announced the formal recognition, which commends election workers for their service during local elections.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The U.S. Election Assistance Commission established National Poll Worker Recruitment Day in 2020 to promote civic engagement and recruit community members to assist at polling sites. <\/p>\n Poll workers prepare voting locations, verify voter registrations, hand out ballots and assist voters during early voting periods and on Election Day.<\/p>\n The celebration on Aug. 11 marks Duval County\u2019s sixth year participating in the national initiative. The resolution encourages eligible residents to consider applying to become poll workers for future elections.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Residents seeking information about becoming a poll worker can visit duvalelections.gov\/pollworkers<\/a> or contact the Duval County Elections Office at 904-255-8683.<\/p>\n The Jacksonville City Council is scheduled to hold a formal presentation to honor poll workers on Sept. 8 during its 5 p.m. meeting.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville City Council has passed a resolution honoring nearly 2,000 local poll workers and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-372712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}