2022 - Honorable Mention for Best Practices in Recruiting, Retaining, and Training Poll Workers

Using Airtable's user-friendly platform, Davidson County (Nashville), Tennessee was able to build a streamlined database that provides a better experience for Poll Workers and their internal office staff. The new database provides easy integration with essential tools like texting and emailing and offers flexible scaling ability. Furthermore, the database's field permissions allow access to be limited to certain users within the office, which gives confidence to staff members who have previously been concerned about data loss and data integrity. The database offers views that are similar to Microsoft's Excel, but Davidson County also built several custom "Interfaces" for each Election Day and Early Voting location, as well as each Poll Worker. These individual views provide a granular and user-friendly look into each location or worker. They also reduce on-boarding time costs of seasonal workers by approx. 60%. During election cycles, Poll Workers can complete questionnaires and required training via online forms which integrate directly into the new database, requiring no administrative middle-person to record the feedback into the database. Eliminating this step reduces 80% of election-time scheduling phone calls and emails. The database is built on a "low-code" platform, which is cost-effective and does not require a contract.