Compensation
After taking a 3-hour Certification training course, as well as attending an in-person training class, a Certified Election Judge will then receive $250 for working Election day.
Responsibilities
Election judges have many responsibilities and perform several tasks on Election Day, including:
- Opening the polling place in the morning and closing it at night
- Setting up election equipment
- Providing assistance to voters
- Signing in voters
- Verifying voter qualifications
- Distributing ballots/activation cards for touch-screen machines
- Operating voting equipment
- Filling out forms
- Be able to lift 30 LBS.
- Processing and transmitting votes at the end of the day
- Certifying vote totals
- Must maintain an apolitical environment in the vote center
- Must be available to return election equipment on election night, if asked. (Extra pay is provided for these services).
Eligibility
To be eligible to serve as an election judge, you must be:
- A U.S. citizen
- A resident of Kane County
- A registered voter
- Able to speak, read and write English
- Be skilled in the four fundamental rules of arithmetic.
- Of good understanding and capable of performing duties
- Be of good repute and character and not subject to the registration requirement of the Sex Offender Registration Act (730 ILCS 150/1)
Candidates running for office and elected political party committee Persons are prohibited from serving as election judges.
Hours
Judges work long hours, arriving at the polling place at 5:00 a.m. and working until the equipment is packed up after the polls close at 8:00 p.m.
Commitment
Election judges are required to work the entire day. In addition, we would like you to commit to working two or more elections (General Election, Consolidated Primary, Consolidated Election, and General Primary)