• Voters and their children.
• A person providing assistance to a voters
• A person accompanying a voter who has a disability
• Election/poll workers and Election Judges - County employees trained to work the polls and who may interact with voters inside or outside of the polling location. Learn more
  
• Poll watcher - Often a partisan appointee of a candidate, party, or proponents or opponents of a ballot measure who cannot interact with the voters. 
  
•  The Secretary of State or staff
• An election official, a sheriff, or a staff member of an election official or sheriff
  delivering election supplies; a special peace officer appointed by the presiding judge.
• Technicians for the voting system
• The county chair of a political party, but only during a primary election

You might meet these folks 100 feet outside of a polling place.

• Poll monitors - Often a non-partisan volunteer who answers voters questions and must stay 100 ft outside of the polling location. An example is a volunteer for Election Protection.
• Poll greeter - Often a partisan volunteer or candidate who can interact with voters  or electioneer and must stay 100 ft outside of the polling location

Training and resources for election workers by the Secretary of State.

• A watcher must:

  • Be a registered voter of the territory (e.g., city, school district) covered by the election and of the county for November general elections for state and county officers (held on even-years), primary elections, or other countywide elections

  • Not be a candidate for public office in an election held on the day the watcher seeks to serve;

  • Not hold an elective public office

  • Not be an employee of an election judge or clerk serving at the same polling place.

  • Not been finally convicted of an offense in connection with conduct directly attributable to an election

  • Not be related within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity to an election judge or clerk serving at that polling place. A watcher may be related to the candidate the watcher is representing.