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Vietnamese election workers sought
for School Board elections

The Pasadena Independent School District wants to hire Vietnamese election workers for the Trustee Election to be conducted on Saturday, May 10, 2008.

Under Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act of 1975, jurisdictions that possess populations that meet certain criteria, such as limited English proficiency, are required to provide election materials to the voters within that jurisdiction in their appropriate language.  For many years, PISD has provided voting materials in both English and Spanish at all polling places.  In a good faith effort to accommodate voters, PISD began in 2003 to provide voting materials in Vietnamese.

In addition, the school district would like to have election clerks at several PISD polling places on election day to provide Vietnamese language assistance  to voters.  If the district is unable to recruit qualified election clerks for these polling places, the district would like to recruit one election clerk to be housed in the PISD Administration Building during the hours that the polls are open on election day to provide Vietnamese language assistance via telephone to any of the district’s polling places where it may be needed.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 10, 2008.  The hourly rate of pay for election clerks is $10, and clerks will be compensated for 15 hours on election day.

Election clerks must be fluent in both oral and written English and Vietnamese.  In addition, they must be registered voters residing within the Pasadena School District.  PISD employees are not eligible to serve as election clerks.

Anyone qualified and interested in serving in the PISD Trustee Election on May 10 is asked to call the PISD Administrative Services Office at (713) 740-0027 no later than Friday, February 8.