COLUMBUS–During a telephonic town hall meeting on Tuesday, representatives from All Voting is Local, CAIR-Columbus, CRIS as well as Ann Fisher from All Sides educated new citizens about the electoral process to empower Ohio voters who speak Arabic, Chinese, Nepalese, Somali and Spanish.
Advocates notified by phone or text, an estimated 30,000 new American voters to participate in the telephone town hall. The call offered an opportunity for voters to ask questions about the voting process and to learn about the coalition’s effort to recruit multilingual poll workers to staff polling places on Nov. 6.
All Voting is Local and CAIR have worked to recruit poll workers throughout Ohio, part of a campaign to tackle the nationwide shortage of poll workers. The campaign, “Be the Difference, Be a Poll Worker” has used billboards, print, digital and radio ads in various languages to ensure polling places throughout Ohio are staffed with enough trained workers. Since August, organizers have recruited over 35 poll workers in 4 languages.
To learn more about where multilingual poll workers will be placed on election day, please visit, http://bit.ly/NewAmericanVote.