'Utah needs you': National election commission urges Utahns to volunteer as poll workers

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission — an independent, bipartisan commission charged with ensuring secure, accurate and accessible elections — is launching a national effort to recruit poll workers, including in Utah.

“Utah needs you,” Commissioner Donald Palmer said in an interview with Utah News Dispatch on Friday.

Tuesday — which is also Utah’s municipal primary — is National Poll Worker Recruitment Day, when the U.S. Election Assistance Commission kicks off a nationwide effort to encourage more people to volunteer at their local county clerks office and sign up to be election workers ahead of the November general election.

“Where there’s a primary, there’s always going to be a general (election),” Palmer quipped, saying the aim of scheduling National Poll Worker Recruitment Day on the same day of municipal primaries is to recruit more poll workers ahead of the 2025 November election, when voters typically turn out in higher numbers.




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