CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Military veterans are being encouraged to volunteer as election judges for the 2026 elections, where they can play a crucial role in supporting the democratic process.<\/p>\n
“Veterans are friendly and communicative with voters,” said Mark Overberg, a national veteran voting advocate who encourages vets to volunteer in their local elections.<\/p>\n
Veterans bring unique qualities to election sites that benefit all voters, particularly newcomers to the process.<\/p>\n
“I find that vets enjoy and celebrate first-time voters,” Overberg said.<\/p>\n
“They also make children who are accompanied by their parents to make them feel welcome at an election site.”<\/p>\n
Overberg said veterans must remain apolitical in their duties. A typical election day begins at 5 a.m. and ends 16 hours later. Volunteers are paid a small stipend, but Overberg said many volunteers don’t accept the stipend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Military veterans are being encouraged to volunteer as election judges for the 2026 elections,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-172150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}