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Election workers are always needed for the testing board, early voting, Election Day, the early voting ballot board, and the central counting station.
Burnet County generally hires four election workers – a presiding election judge, an alternate presiding election judge, and two election clerks – for each of its voting precincts to serve on Election Day.
In accordance with the Texas Election Code, each July, Commissioners Court appoints for a one year term to each voting precinct, an election judge and an alternate judge. The names of the election judges are provided by the county chair of the political party whose candidate for governor received the highest number of votes in the last gubernatorial election. The names of the alternate judges are provided by the county chair of the political party whose candidate for governor received the second highest number of votes in the last gubernatorial election. The election judge appoints the election clerks. If the presiding election judge is unable to serve in a particular election, the alternate judge serves as presiding election judge.
To be eligible to be a presiding election or alternate presiding election judge, you must be a qualified voter in the precinct in which you will serve. You may not be an elected public officer, a candidate for public office, an employee or relative of an opposed candidate, a campaign treasurer or manager, or finally convicted of an election offense.
The presiding election judge is in charge of and responsible for the management and conduct of the election at the polling place to which he or she is assigned. Additionally, the presiding election judge appoints the election clerks, one of which must be the alternate judge, and designates the working hours of and the duties to be performed by the election workers at the polling location. Election clerks must be registered voters in Burnet County, but not necessarily in the precinct to which they are assigned.
Commissioners Court also appoints the presiding judge of the central counting station; the presiding judge appoints two clerks. The central counting station board works at the central counting station after the polls close on Election Day.
The Election Administrator designates the early voting deputies, who must be registered voters in Burnet County.
If you are interested in being an election judge, alternate judge, or election clerk, contact the appropriate county chair of the political party. You may also provide your name, address, and telephone number to the Elections Administrator at (512) 715-5288, who will forward the information to the appropriate chair.
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