Voting Event Roles & Reminders

Eligible voters are: 

• 14+ years old 

• Live, work, study, have a child that studies, or own a business in Evanston. 

• “Work” includes regular part-time work and volunteering  

Budget delegates 

• Tell voters about your proposals 

• Tell voter participatory budgeting process  

• Gently encourage people to vote 

• No campaigning within 20 feet of the voting area 

Sign in volunteer 

• Ask voters if they want to vote with phone or paper 

• For paper voting: 

  • provide a paper registration & ballot 

  • direct voters to the voting booth 

  • tell voter to hand completed registration and ballot to data manager 

• For online registration,    

• direct people to the online registration instructions / QR code on the online voting instructions 

• tell voter to see the data manager after they have registered to receive their voting link by email 

Data Manager 

For paper voting, the data manager should: 

• receive paper ballots 

For online voting, the data manager should: 

• find the voters registration information in the spreadsheet 

• transfer the email to the voting software 

• if the voter has already voted, ask if they want to spoil the previous ballot 

• send them the link to vote on their phone 

Outreach volunteer 

After voting: 

• hand out “I voted” stickers, posters and yard signs 

• ask voters to write the name and email of other people they think might like to vote