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Speaker 2: It's coming to an eighty forty two fifty five KRCD
Speaker 2: talk station. It's time for early voting, and it's also
Speaker 2: time to do the the regular shout out for the
Speaker 2: need of poll workers. Sherry Polland from the Hamil County
Speaker 2: Board of Elections, welcome back to the fifty five KRC
Speaker 2: Morning Show. It's always nice having you on.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Brian, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: Has there ever been a year, I mean we have
Speaker 2: you know, like early elections, we've got the fall elections,
Speaker 2: we have on your elections, we have off your elections.
Speaker 2: Has there ever been a year that you can remember
Speaker 2: where you didn't need poll workers?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, We always put the call out for
Speaker 4: poll workers. You know, Presidential elections are are actually the
Speaker 4: easiest election to recruit poll workers because there's such a
Speaker 4: high interest in the election. But even then, you know,
Speaker 4: we recruit over and above what we need because the
Speaker 4: turnout is so high and we know things can happen
Speaker 4: and people might might drop at the last minute. So
Speaker 4: we're always putting out the shout out for poll workers.
Speaker 2: Well, in an off cycle election that may be a
Speaker 2: better time if you've never worked the polls because the
Speaker 2: pressure's off. There aren't people lined around the corner to
Speaker 2: come in and vote, so not as much work to do.
Speaker 2: And I know it's always a really nice experience. My
Speaker 2: wife did it for years and years and years, and
Speaker 2: everyone gets along and plays nicely and you know, resolve
Speaker 2: problems and it's I think it's just a rewarding way
Speaker 2: to serve the community.
Speaker 4: Oh I, you know, one thousand percent agree. You know,
Speaker 4: it's a great way to serve your community and to
Speaker 4: find out a little bit more about how elections are administered.
Speaker 4: You know, that's been a hot topic in recent years
Speaker 4: across their country, and I think, you know, what a
Speaker 4: better way to learn how it works than to actually
Speaker 4: be a part of it. So it's a great experience.
Speaker 4: They poll workers are paid for their time. They make
Speaker 4: a minimum of two hundred and twenty five dollars, you know,
Speaker 4: so it's a nice little a nice little paycheck for
Speaker 4: serving your community.
Speaker 1: Now that's the total.
Speaker 4: Amount of pay. They do have to come for training
Speaker 4: at our Board of Elections. We offer those classes, you know, mornings, afternoons,
Speaker 4: evenings and saturdays, so don't fit anyone's schedules, so they
Speaker 4: do have to attend in person training and then they
Speaker 4: go to their assigned polling place the night before election
Speaker 4: day Monday night, and set up and then work election day.
Speaker 4: And for all of that work they're paid two hundred
Speaker 4: and twenty five dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's I think it's more about the experience,
Speaker 2: I guess, you know, it would be a great idea
Speaker 2: because you know, there's a lot of folks, you know,
Speaker 2: sometimes in my listening audience, but generally in the public,
Speaker 2: they have very little faith in the the election integrity.
Speaker 2: But I think if you serve as a poll worker,
Speaker 2: it might go a long way to prove that perhaps
Speaker 2: you're wrong along those lines.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's what I was mentioning before.
Speaker 4: You know, it's a great way to find out, you know,
Speaker 4: how elections work, and.
Speaker 1: The poll workers play such a crucial role.
Speaker 4: You know, we have a staff here at the Board
Speaker 4: of Elections, you know, forty four full time employees and
Speaker 4: then we hire seasonal employees and they really get, you know,
Speaker 4: an inside look at it. But we're not the faces
Speaker 4: of the board, you know, to the general public. It's
Speaker 4: the poll workers that are, you know, the ones that
Speaker 4: are out in the community. Administering the election are actually
Speaker 4: the faces of the Board of Elections to the community,
Speaker 4: and so you know, we need good people to come
Speaker 4: out and fill those roles.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: Along those lines, I want to thank you and the
Speaker 2: folks at the Hamilton County Board of Elections. I've voted
Speaker 2: early there and I vote an election day. You guys
Speaker 2: do a great job. It is a well oiled machine.
Speaker 2: I mean there have been days when it was I
Speaker 2: think on the last presidential election we did early voting
Speaker 2: and you know there's that line out the door and
Speaker 2: you get you roll your eyes like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be standing here all day long. No, you
Speaker 2: move right through. You process the folks very quickly. It's
Speaker 2: efficient and you know it's serviced with a smile. So
Speaker 2: I salute the work that you're doing there.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: You know, there's a lot of hard work that goes in,
Speaker 4: you know, to set up that early vote center and
Speaker 4: make sure that it's running, you know, efficiently and securely,
Speaker 4: and our team works really hard on doing that. You know,
Speaker 4: we do mock elections where we have our staff go
Speaker 4: and vote test ballots because we really want to test
Speaker 4: the system, test our processes, and like you said, voting
Speaker 4: with a smile. You know, we believe that if voters
Speaker 4: have a good experience while casting their ballot, that they're
Speaker 4: more likely to believe in the outcome and in the
Speaker 4: integrity of the election. So we work really hard at that.
Speaker 4: So thank you for recognizing.
Speaker 2: It just shows and that's why I wanted to make
Speaker 2: sure I did. Thank you for that that excellent service.
Speaker 2: Now we do have the special election primary election May sixth,
Speaker 2: and early voting is going on. Now, what's your finger
Speaker 2: on the pulse of the of the number of people voting?
Speaker 2: Is it normal? Is it low? Is it as expected
Speaker 2: because a lot of people don't vote in these in
Speaker 2: these primary and special elections.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's low. It's been a low turnout so far.
Speaker 4: That is to be expected. Something that's a little different
Speaker 4: about this spring election is that there is a state
Speaker 4: wide issue on the ballot issue too, So yeah, issue too.
Speaker 4: So every voter in the state of Ohio has something
Speaker 4: to vote for, something to vote on this election.
Speaker 1: So that's a little that's a little different.
Speaker 4: You know, a lot of times in odd numbered years
Speaker 4: in the spring, it's usually not even a county wide election. Right,
Speaker 4: it's usually just a few political subdivisions having an election,
Speaker 4: but this may everyone has something to vote on with
Speaker 4: state issue too, so we encourage people to to you know,
Speaker 4: to go on to our website vote Hamilton County, Ohio
Speaker 4: dot GUV. They can take a look at their sample ballot,
Speaker 4: you know, read over the ballot issue before going into vote,
Speaker 4: so so they can become an informed voter. And then
Speaker 4: there's also a few other jurisdictions that have some other
Speaker 4: contests on the ballot. I think what we've heard a
Speaker 4: lot about is the City of Cincinnati if having a primary,
Speaker 4: yeah election for mayor. City of Cincinnati holds their primaries.
Speaker 4: It's a little different. Usually when we think of a primary,
Speaker 4: we think of political parties that are nominating their candidates
Speaker 4: to appear on the November ballot. But the city does
Speaker 4: things a little differently. They it's called a non partisan primary,
Speaker 4: so the candidates do not have party affiliation next to
Speaker 4: their name. There's not a different ballot for the political parties.
Speaker 4: Every voter in the City of Cincinnati has just one
Speaker 4: ballot and it has both the mayor's contest as well
Speaker 4: as that state issue too.
Speaker 1: And what triggered the primary election.
Speaker 4: In Cincinnati is that more than two candidates filed to run,
Speaker 4: and so we had three candidates file for mayor. That's
Speaker 4: what triggers the primary election. The top two vote guters
Speaker 4: in the primary then move on and we'll face each
Speaker 4: other to be elected in the November general.
Speaker 2: Well, you boiled that down quite nicely, Sherry. Polling from
Speaker 2: the hammil County Board of Elections Vote Hamiltoncountyohio dot govz
Speaker 2: the website, check out all the information and again, Sherry
Speaker 2: on half all my listeners. Thanks for the great work
Speaker 2: you're doing, and I will encourage my listeners to sign
Speaker 2: up to be a poll worker. It could certainly use
Speaker 2: your help. Cherry, thanks very much for spending time with
Speaker 2: me and are my listeners of me today.
Speaker 4: Thanks thank you for having me get the message about
Speaker 4: out about the election as well as the need for
Speaker 4: poll workers.
Speaker 1: Always appreciated.
Speaker 2: I'm always here to help you out. I really am
Speaker 2: sharing if you a poll worker. Thanks Cherry, we'll talk
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