{"id":75142,"date":"2021-09-08T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/city-looking-to-hire-workers-for-election\/"},"modified":"2021-09-08T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T09:30:00","slug":"city-looking-to-hire-workers-for-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/city-looking-to-hire-workers-for-election\/","title":{"rendered":"City looking to hire workers for election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City and Borough of Juneau is looking to hire elections workers for the upcoming Oct. 5, 2021, municipal elections, the city announced Wednesday in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming weeks the city will be hiring or rehiring &ldquo;civic-minded and hard-working individuals,&rdquo; for a variety of roles to support the elections, according to CBJ. Roles include election call center workers, ballot drop box teams, on-call election workers and Canvass Review Board workers.<\/p>\n<p>Dates, times, and duration of work will vary depending on need, the city said, and anyone interested in applying is encouraged to contact Municipal Clerk and Election Official Beth McEwen at (907)586-5278 or city.clerk@juneau.org.<\/p>\n<p>Pay for election workers varies depending on the particular job and duties involved. Interested people will be asked to submit an updated <a href=\"https:\/\/juneau.org\/human-resources\/employment-opportunities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBJ job application<\/a>, available at the city&rsquo;s website.<\/p>\n<p>Qualified election workers must be registered to vote in Alaska, and &ldquo;enjoy interaction with the public; perform duties in a neutral\/non-partisan fashion; and comply with all CBJ election laws, policies, and procedures, and maintain the confidentially of voter information in accordance with the State of Alaska Division of Election rules and regulations,&rdquo; according to CBJ.<\/p>\n<p>Election workers should not work or volunteer on the campaign of a candidate or ballot initiative that may appear on the municipal ballot, according to the city. An election worker cannot have a familial relationship with a candidate on the municipal ballot, including any write-in candidates. Familial relationship includes mother, mother-in-law, stepmother; father, father-in-law, stepfather; sister, sister-in-law, stepsister; brother, brother-in-law, stepbrother; spouse; or person sharing the same living quarters, according to CBJ. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety of jobs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":75143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[329,75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-75142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-elections","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75142"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=75142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}