A drivers license is not required but makes the election clerk's job easier in that they can scan the bar code on drivers' license and complete the sign-in quicker. In Texas, your voter registration certificate used to have a bar code that can be used in the check-in process (I have not checked my certificate to see if my latest certificate has a bar code). Without swiping your voter certificate or drivers' license, the election clerk has to look you up in the system and then print the form for you to sign. The swiping also allows the election official to note which primary you are voting in (in Texas, primaries are open but you can not change parties after voting in the primary for that election cycle). We used drivers' license swipes to check in for the Democratic Party County SD Conventions back in April where you had to sign a loyalty oath to support the party's candidates in order to participate.
In Texas, each polling station is suppose to have an equal number of Democratic and Republican election workers. If a precinct went for the republican candidate, then the head election judge for that precinct should be a republican and the deputy judge needs to be a Democrat. I am not sure how this is handled for early voting. We are doing split primaries in Fort Bend County this cycle and I will be an election judge from my precinct. I am suppose to do the training next week. I am usually busy working on voter protection during an election and this will be the first time that I am an election judge.
I hope that this answers your questions.
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