July 15, 2025

Recruitment and Retention: Understanding Poll Workers’ Motivations & Beliefs

Who volunteers to be a poll worker? How do poll workers think about their role? And how might recruiting trusted groups – like veterans and military families – improve trust in elections?

Join The Elections Group and The Center for Election Innovation and Research at 1 p.m. ET on Tuesday, July 15, for the second webinar in this summer’s Books & Ballots series, which showcases useful research for election officials from this summer’s Election Science, Reform, & Administration (ESRA) conference.

During the conversation, Professors Anita Manion, David Kimball, Matt Lamb, and Michael Hanmer will explore these questions and more as they present and discuss their recent work into the motivations and beliefs of poll workers.

This webinar is part of the Books and Ballots series, a partnership with The Center for Election Innovation and Research and Arizona State University’s Mechanics of Democracy Laboratory.