Also called: Voting Equipment Technician
Tests, secures, and maintains voting machines and election computers for a county.
Before each election you run test ballots through every machine, seal them with tamper-evident tape, and are on call all election day to fix anything that breaks.
Estimate; government pay scales.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Associate's degree (2-year), about 2 years after high school. Associate or on-the-job training; background checks.
Ways in: On-the-job training, 2-year college, Certification. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Information Technology.
Growing about average. Small, steady.
Low risk for 10 years. Laws and public trust require people to test, secure and watch voting equipment; AI won't change that.
Classes: AP Government, Computer applications.
Official data: O*NET occupation 15-1232.
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