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Featured course PW 101: Recruiting Poll Workers for Your Jurisdiction Course Length: 90 min | Cost: Free | Format: Self-paced

Poll Workers 101 focuses on helping you better understand what motivates poll workers, and it provides an overview of various recruitment strategies that your office can use.

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Leading a Successful Poll Worker Program

4 courses | Course length: 90 minutes each | Cost: Free | Format: Self-paced

Poll workers play a crucial role in elections, and leading a successful poll worker program involves handling many different moving parts. Join the Center for Tech and Civic Life for four free 90-minute trainings exploring the components of a successful poll worker program, beginning with recruitment, through training, day-of management, and retention.

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Cybersecurity for U.S. election officials

3 courses | Course length: 90 minutes each | Cost: Free | Format: Self-paced

Manage cyber threats and communicate with the public about cybersecurity using this series developed in partnership with the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT).

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Geo-Enabling Elections

5 courses | Course length: 1 hour each | Cost: Free | Format: Self-paced

Use geographic information systems (GIS) to increase the accessibility, accuracy, reliability of election data. Designed with the National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC), this series walks you through NSGIC's five best practices for geo-enabled elections.

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"I enjoyed the information and the information sheets to go along with each session was very beneficial."

-- Jocelyn Abbott, Election Program Assistant II, Wicomico County, MD

"CTCL trainings pack helpful best practices into short sessions, which works great with a busy schedule. We take away something from each CTCL training, such as website improvements and simplifying communication with voters. We are always excited to see new CTCL course offerings!"

-- Kara Clark Summers, County Clerk, Cape Girardeau, MO

"CTCL offers a variety of helpful trainings that are tailor-made for elections administrators. I've found the web-based trainings incredibly convenient and accessible to learn new tools and techniques that have benefited my staff and the voters we serve. I truly appreciate the shared discussions and the connections that are made among elections officials across the country."

-- Tim Tsujii, Elections Director, Forsyth County, NC

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