Will our engineers, garbage collectors, parks staff, city planners and police and fire staff all be serving as clerks for election day?
Yay! for high turn out! But . . . tough to manage.
From: Witzel-Behl, Maribeth
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 1:00 PM
To: All Email Users
Subject: Work at the Polls Tuesday, April 5Good afternoon.
The number of absentee voters we have seen so far indicates that the turnout for the April 5 Spring Election may be similar to the turnout we see for a November Election.
The City Clerk’s Office would like to recruit city employees to work at the polls on city time with their supervisor’s permission. This would enable our polling places to split the poll books if the lines get long. We do not want our voters to have to wait in line any longer than 15 minutes.
For more information and to sign up, go to http://employeenet/CLERK/. Training is available online and is linked to our employeenet site.
Thank you!
Maribeth Witzel-Behl
Madison City Clerk
Will this be a repeat of “The Great Ballot Shortage of April 2009”? The County Clerk’s office has arranged for election day printing if shortages are reported, but it may take 2 hours or more to deliver them to the polling places.