2021 - Honorable Mention for Poll Workers

Douglas County Elections has developed an online video training program to enhance the recruitment, instruction, and retention of election judges. This program provides clarity and consistency in messaging and applies adult learning theory to video production techniques. Each video provides a self-paced, user friendly, online training experience, covering topics critical to the conduct of elections. Our team has produced nine short videos for our Voting Service and Polling Center (VSPC) election judges on the Canvas learning platform. When asked, "Overall, how would you rate this training?", almost 90 percent of the election judges answered "good"or "excellent". When asked what they like about the training, the overwhelmingly positive responses include, "I like the informal/comfortable setting at home", "I like that it can be broken into different sessions and that I did not have to view it all at once", "The videos were logical, easy to follow, and there were plenty of visual aids."The online training program is proving to be very successful in instructing and retaining skilled election judges. Douglas County Elections is producing even more videos this year to cover additional election judge roles and duties, election judge recruitment, and onboarding of judges as temporary county staff.