Bergen County Board of Elections
Poll worker application
The Board of Elections has jurisdiction over the following aspects of elections.
- Recruiting, training, supervising, and appointing a sufficient number of poll works to staff all 553 polling districts in Bergen County.
- Receiving, canvassing, and counting paper ballots such as absentee ballots and provisional ballots.
- Certifying and inspecting polling places for accessibility and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- Issuing of challenger permits and badges to eligible voters.
- Redistricting of towns, election districts and subdivisions, when appropriate, and filing maps and the legal boundary descriptions of the election districts with the Attorney General’s Office.
- Recounting election results (done by court order only).