Opinion
COMMENTARY: Be a poll worker, an essential worker for our democracy
In a school gym with a dozen others, some still groggy at 5 a.m., Whitney raised her right hand and repeated after the chief election officer, “I do solemnly swear that I will perform the duties ...
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Election supervisors say poll workers need to be shielded from harassment, threats
Following another bitterly contested campaign season, Florida election supervisors are renewing their call for more protections for poll workers harassed, threatened and insulted by a conspiracy ...
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I'm a Pennsylvania poll worker. I worked a 15-hour shift for $250, but it was worth it to help people vote — especially in a swing state.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Aaron Stevens, a 33-year-old poll worker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, about his experience working the 2022 midterm elections. It has been ...
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‘There’s a need’: Nevada recruits veterans to work as poll workers
He directed voters where to go in the wet tent and talked with his fellow poll workers all day. He had a wonderful time, and he’s been working Nevada’s elections ever since. “You meet a lot ...
Election supervisors say poll workers need to be shielded from harassment, threats
Lake County Elections Supervisor Alan Hays said that in his GOP-dominated county, his staff has been regularly subject to abuse from the public.