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MAKING VOTING POPULAR

Six election offices in the bi-state Kansas City Metropolitan Area are working together to promote voting to area residents. The county election offices include Clay, Jackson, Platte and Kansas City election offices in Missouri; and Johnson and Wyandotte election offices in Kansas.

The first initiative is titled, "Making Voting Popular (MVP)". This is a corporate and organizational outreach program to assist election offices with staffing of voting locations on Election Day. On major election days, election offices in the bi-state area become the eighth largest employer in the area, hiring over 5,900 employees. With unemployment at an all time record low, finding these employees is a difficult task. The MVP program is designated to promote a public/private partnership which will improve the voting process, increase public awareness of the need to make voting popular and promote civic responsibility.

Mission Statement
Open Letter to Kansas City Metropolitan Companies and Organizations
Company/Organization Registration Form
Election Worker Information and Qualifications
Election Worker Application

MISSION STATEMENT

To develop a voluntary partnership between election authorities and the corporate/business/organizational community that will meet election day human resource needs.

OBJECTIVE

To develop a formal program that will allow corporations, businesses and organizational institutions the opportunity to loan employees to election organizations to serve as election workers on election day.

GOAL

To increase the number of election workers available to election authorities, expand public knowledge of the voting process, create opportunities for individuals to commit to and meet civic responsibilities and, through formal and informal communication channels, develop outreach programs which will ultimately result in increased voter participation.

BENEFITS

  • Will provide corporate/business/organizational institutions the opportunity to meet civic responsibilities.
  • Will provide corporate/business/organizational institutions the opportunity to receive recognition, through formal channels, of their commitment to civic responsibilities.
  • Will create a pool of skilled workers to facilitate the voting process at the polls.
  • Will increase public awareness of the voting process.
  • Will create more public trust in the voting process.
  • Will result in polling places being run more efficiently.
  • Will result in faster retrieval of election data.

SPONSORS

The Kansas City Board of Election Commissioners, Jackson County Board of Election Commissioners, Clay County Board of Election Commissioners, Platte County Board of Election Commissioners, the Johnson County Election Commissioner and the Wyandotte County Election Commissioner.

OPEN LETTER

Open Letter to Kansas City Metropolitan Companies and Organizations

We need your help! On election days, our bi-state election authorities become one of the largest employers in the metropolitan area, by hiring workers to conduct the election. With our current 4% unemployment rate, finding personnel to meet these needs is a difficult task, but with your help, we can make a difference.

Making Voting Popular is a program developed by election officials who serve our bi-state area and is designed to address this need. It provides an opportunity for companies and organizations to promote civic pride by loaning employees to work in elections.

You can participate by selecting employees to work as Election Day officials in their home county on election day. Each participant will be trained and compensated for the 13-14 hour work day and each participating company/organization will be recognized with a beautiful MVP Certificate.

Organizations can use the program as a fund raising tool when members agree to work on election day and donate their salary to their group.

We believe this public/private partnership will improve the voting process, increase public awareness of the need to make voting popular and promote civic responsibility. Of course, it will also be good for your business or group as it will communicate your commitment to civic responsibility throughout the metropolitan region.

The following data provides additional information about this innovative program. Please take a few moments to review the details, then return the Company Response Form to the election authority in your jurisdiction. Should you decide to participate in the program, you will be contacted by a representative from one of the election authorities.

We look forward to welcoming you and your employees as corporate and/or organization members of the MVP Program!

Questions about the program may be directed to one of the following offices:

  • Clay County - Dave Reinhart, Republican Director
    Patty Evans, Democrat Director
    415-8683
  • Jackson County - Charlene Davis or Bob Nichols, Directors - 325-4600
  • Johnson County - Brian Newby Commissioner - (913) 782-3441
  • Kansas City - Shawn L. Kieffer or Shelley McThomas, Directors - 842-4820
  • Platte County - Wendy Flannigan or Mary Beth Erickson, Director - 858-3344
  • Wyandotte County - Bruce L. Newby, Commissioner - (913)573-8500

To participate in MVP please fill out the Company/Organization Registration Form

Please click here to download a pdf version of this form.