Millions of Americans will head to the polls to vote in November.

The US Election Assistance Commission wants to make sure there will be enough poll workers to take those ballots.

Tomorrow it will host National Poll Worker recruitment day.

It's an effort to support election officials and encourage people to participate in the democratic process.

National Poll Worker Recruitment day started in 2020.

You know, we were in the we were in the pandemic and it was an election year.

And unfortunately, you know, a lot of our veteran poll workers, a lot of our seniors who are traditionally poll workers were not were not able to come out, are not able to come out and feel safe doing.

Serving as a poll worker.

And so we knew that we needed more folks to step up.

We saw a lot of new people sign up, which was awesome.

And as we talked to election officials, you know, they really appreciated that support for working.

Recruiting poll workers is always a challenge.

And so what we heard from them was, hey, you know, if you could do that again, we'd appreciate it.

And so we've kept this up as a sort of a civic holiday as a day of action to lift up the fact that people can serve as a poll worker.

This seems this seems pretty fundamental, pretty basic.

But if you don't have poll workers, you can't have polls.

And so, you know, again, I think that for a number of people, you know, they don't realize or didn't know that this was a way that they could serve in their community or that our elections are run by your friends and your neighbors all across the country.

And so for the November election, we anticipate there'll be almost a million Americans who serve as poll workers in their own communities to help run the election in, you know, in their neighborhood polling places.

I think that at a time when we see a lot of polarization, you know, I think there's a lot of people that that have concerns about how they can be involved or if they want to be, because they don't like sort of the politics of all of it.

And and to me, poll working is really a great way to to put that aside and just say, I'm going to make sure that that my neighbors have a great experience voting.

And I can do that.

I can do that little thing.

I can I can play my part to make the election in my community run well.

And that's a great way to give back to your community and a great way to serve our democracy.

For more information on becoming a precinct election officer in Kentucky, go to elect dot K-Y dot gov.