WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today is National Poll Worker Recruitment Day, and the Republican National Committee is already 42% ahead of its 2024 pace, with 16,971 poll worker signups nationwide.
Republicans are building a record-breaking election integrity operation across key battleground states, recruiting poll workers and election observers to protect legal votes, and help deliver victories up and down the ballot this November.
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New
midterm battleground takes shape as parties build election armies
Fox News
August 11, 2026
“Tuesday marks National Poll
Worker Recruitment Day, a once-obscure observance created in 2020 that has
become a significant organizing marker for both parties. Republicans and
Democrats are recruiting poll workers, observers, lawyers and voter-protection
staff as they prepare for one of the most consequential midterm elections in
history.
We have more poll workers in
the 2026 cycle than we did in the 2024 cycle," Republican National
Committee Chair Joe Gruters told Fox News Digital in a recent interview.
"We're better prepared. We have staffers in 25 states. We are on the
ground, ready to do battle."
The RNC, in data shared
exclusively with Fox News Digital, is 42% ahead of its 2024 pace, with 16,971
volunteer signups nationwide compared with 11,917 at the same point in the past
presidential cycle.
"The RNC has shattered
our 2024 poll worker recruitment benchmarks, built the largest election
integrity operation in Republican Party history, and mobilized thousands of
volunteers to help secure the ballot box," Gruters added in a statement.
"With less than 90 days until the midterms, we’re seeing
record-breaking grassroots engagement, expanding our operation into new states,
and building the infrastructure needed to defy history in 2026."
That effort came from the
top from Trump, post-2020, and has led to the RNC's election integrity
unit buildout with its multimillion-dollar campaign.
And "parity"
election laws regulating poll workers from both the national party apparatuses
has the Democratic National Committee, facing widely reported fundraising
hiccups, playing catch-up with the RNC and its $128.5 million midterm war chest.
[...]
"We've been continuing
to build on the election integrity efforts of the last cycle where Lara Trump
and Michael Whatley [former RNC co-chairs] did such a great job," Gruters
said in Friday's interview. Lara Trump now hosts "My View with Lara Trump"
on Fox News Channel.
That statement pointed back
to the nexus of the RNC's multimillion-dollar election integrity unit at
ProtecttheVote.com that has Democrats, its famed election lawyer Marc Elias and
Democracy Docket founder and the DNC forced to play catch-up, to match the
RNC's poll worker masses. Parity laws in some states nationwide legally require
it.
[...]
We got to do everything we
can to make sure we have these safe and secure elections," Gruters said
Friday, pointing to the "most litigation we've ever done as a party."
"We have, I think, almost 200 lawsuits now this cycle. I think 177 active
lawsuits right now."
"We're not being
reactive. We're being as proactive as we can."
"We're bringing the
absolute hammer wherever we can in defending freedom and these safe and secure
election policies everywhere we have to, anywhere we can go, we will go from
coast to coast," he said.
[...]
The RNC says it has expanded
recruitment into Maryland, Colorado, New Mexico, Kentucky, Alaska and Ohio,
producing 2,076 additional submissions in those states. The committee says the
effort is part of a multimillion-dollar election integrity program with
directors deployed in 22 states and a year-round voter-protection operation
nationwide…”
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