If you are one of the more than one million Americans who cast a ballot already, thank a poll worker. These are the workers who work long hours for low pay to help enable their neighbors to cast ballots.
Vicki Brown, a retired school librarian who worked at a polling site in Montana, said she thought long and hard about whether to serve as a poll worker again. Brown said she ultimately decided "nobody is going to stop me from doing what I want," and she worked the state’s June primary.Poll worker Mildred Henson helps voters submit ballots in the curbside line, Oct. 27, 2020, at Malcolm X Opportunity Center, in Washington.
Election officials have focused some of their recent recruiting on young people, who can help in new and useful ways, especially with electronic voting and poll books. Beyond colleges, some workplaces now allow employees to receive their regular paychecks while volunteering. For the 2022 primary, about half of the county’s 1,600 poll workers were drafted, while the other half volunteered.
Democrats don’t seem to have matched Republican efforts, though. The Democratic National Committee has not launched any similar poll worker recruitment effort this year. If voters express interest to the DNC in working at polls, the organization forwards their names to the state party.A poll worker, left, helps a voter vote at a school in Midlothian, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021.
Raquel Padron, a retired real estate agent from Hollywood, Florida, wanted to seehow elections work herself after hearing news that something went wrong with the last election.
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