Requirements for Serving as a Pollworker

**[Missouri]{.underline}**

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| **[State Registration Requirement]{.underline}**                      |
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| **[(Exceptions may be found in Student Election Assistant             |
| category)]{.underline}**                                              |
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| Must be a registered voter.                                           |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.085 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| **[Age Requirement]{.underline}**                                     |
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| 17 years and 6 months of age to register and to vote in any election  |
| held on or after the voter's 18th birthday.                           |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.133 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| **[Residency Place and Term Required for Voter                        |
| Registration]{.underline}**                                           |
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| State and jurisdiction.                                               |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.133(1) & (3); Mo. Const. Art. VIII, § 2         |
| (Thomson/West 2006).*                                                 |
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| **[Residency Requirement for Service (State, County or                |
| Precinct)]{.underline}**                                              |
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| Jurisdiction unless special permission.                               |
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| Must be registered voters in the jurisdiction in which they will      |
| work, unless the election authority of another jurisdiction obtains   |
| the written consent of the election authority for the jurisdiction    |
| where the prospective judges are registered to vote                   |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.085 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| **[Affiliation with Political Party Requirement]{.underline}**        |
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| **[and Process for Nomination as Poll Worker]{.underline}**           |
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| Preference for Affiliated.                                            |
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| For counties with no board of elections and the election authority is |
| the county clerk: The county committee of each major political party  |
| shall submit a list of persons qualified to serve as election judges  |
| to the election authority and the election authority shall select and |
| appoint judges from the lists. The election authority may compile a   |
| list of persons who claim no political affiliation and who volunteer  |
| to be election judges and may select and appoint judges from the      |
| list.                                                                 |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.087 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| For counties that have a board of elections:                          |
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| The county committee of each major political party may submit a list  |
| of persons qualified to serve as election judges and the board may    |
| select and appoint judges from the lists. The board may compile a     |
| list of persons who claim no political affiliation and who volunteer  |
| to be election judges and may select and appoint judges from the      |
| list.                                                                 |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.089 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| Primary and general elections: appoint at least two judges from each  |
| major political party to serve at each polling place. No major        |
| political party shall have a majority of the judges at any polling    |
| place. No established party shall have a greater number of judges at  |
| any polling place than any major political party. Not a primary or    |
| general election: appoint at least one judge from each major          |
| political party to serve at each polling place. No major political    |
| party shall have a majority of the judges at any polling place. No    |
| established party shall have a greater number of judges at any        |
| polling place than any major political party. In all elections, the   |
| election authority shall designate two of the judges appointed for    |
| each polling place, one from each major political party, as           |
| supervisory judges.                                                   |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.081 (1) - (4) (Thomson/West 2006).*             |
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| Board may appoint additional election judges representing other       |
| established political parties and additional election judges who do   |
| not claim a political affiliation. Any question which requires a      |
| decision by the majority of judges shall only be made by the judges   |
| from the major political parties.                                     |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.081(6) (Thomson/West 2006).*                    |
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| **[Term Requirements]{.underline}**                                   |
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| For counties where the county clerk is the election authority,        |
| election judges are appointed for each election.                      |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.087 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| Election judges may be appointed for individual elections or for a    |
| term coincident with the term of the board and until the judges\'     |
| successors are appointed and qualified.                               |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.089 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| **[Compensation and Hour Requirements]{.underline}**                  |
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| Part-day possible. Poll hours are 6:00 a.m. -- 7:00 p.m.              |
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| Compensation is set by the election authority.                        |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.101 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| Election judges may be employed to serve for the first half or last   |
| half of any election day and will be paid one-half the regular rate   |
| of pay.                                                               |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.081(5) (Thomson/West 2006).*                    |
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| No election judge shall be absent from the polls for more than one    |
| hour during the hours the polls are open on election day. No election |
| judge shall be absent from the polls before 9:00 a.m. or after 5:00   |
| p.m. on election day. No more than one judge from the same major      |
| political party shall be absent from the polls at the same time on    |
| election day.                                                         |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.097 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| **[Training, Certification and Oath Requirements]{.underline}**       |
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| All election authorities shall establish training courses for         |
| election judges. Such courses shall include substantially the         |
| curriculum developed by the secretary of state\'s office in           |
| accordance with the Help America Vote Act of 2002.                    |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.103 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| Oath required.                                                        |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.091.* *(Thomson/West 2006).*                    |
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| **[Elected Public Officials Prohibited]{.underline}**                 |
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| No election judge shall, during his or her term of office, hold any   |
| other elective public office, other than as a member of a political   |
| party committee or township office, except any person who is elected  |
| to a board or commission of a political subdivision or special        |
| district may serve as an election judge except at a polling place     |
| where such political subdivision or special district has an issue or  |
| candidate on the ballot.                                              |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.085 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| **[Candidates Prohibited]{.underline}**                               |
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| No candidate appearing on the ballot, or candidate's relative within  |
| the second degree, by consanguinity or affinity, may be an election   |
| judge. However, if the candidate is unopposed, then the relative may  |
| serve. In addition, in a county of less than 250,000 inhabitants, an  |
| unopposed candidate for the county committee of a political party,    |
| who is not a candidate for any other office, may serve.               |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.085 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| **[The Effect of Felon Status on Participation]{.underline}**         |
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| Prohibited while incarcerated for a felony, and while on probation or |
| parole, until finally discharged from such probation or parole.       |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.133(2); Mo. Rev. Stat. § 561.026 (Thomson/West  |
| 2006).*                                                               |
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| Prohibited if convicted of a felony or misdemeanor connected with the |
| right of suffrage.                                                    |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.133(3); Mo. Rev. Stat. § 561.026 (Thomson/West  |
| 2006).*                                                               |
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| Persons convicted of felony, or crime connected with the exercise of  |
| the right of suffrage may be excluded by law from voting.             |
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| *Mo. Const. Art VIII, § 2 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| **[The Effect of Mental Incapacitation on                             |
| Participation]{.underline}**                                          |
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| Prohibited if adjudged incapacitated.                                 |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.133(2) (Thomson/West 2006).*                    |
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| No person who has a guardian of his or her estate or person by reason |
| of mental incapacity, appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction  |
| and no person who is involuntarily confined in a mental institution   |
| pursuant to an adjudication of a court of competent jurisdiction      |
| shall be entitled to vote.                                            |
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| *Mo. Const. Art VIII, § 2 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| **[English Fluency and Literacy Requirement]{.underline}**            |
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| Must speak, read, and write the English language.                     |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.085 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| **[Good Reputation Requirement]{.underline}**                         |
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| Each election judge shall be a person of good repute and character.   |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.085 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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| **[Alternative Positions with Different Requirements]{.underline}**   |
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| No Information Available.                                             |
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| **[Student Election Assistant Statute]{.underline}**                  |
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| · 15 -- 17 years old;                                                 |
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| · full time attendance in a school in Missouri;                       |
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| · take and sign oath;                                                 |
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| · Have demonstrated age-appropriate academic ability and demeanor;    |
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| · Be a person of good repute who can speak, read and write the        |
| English language;                                                     |
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| · Not be related within the second degree of consanguinity or         |
| affinity to any person whose name appears on the ballot, except that  |
| no participant shall be disqualified if related within such degree to |
| an unopposed candidate.                                               |
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| *Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.104 (Thomson/West 2006).*                       |
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