Poll workers on Election Day will be younger – and probably more diverse – due to COVID-19
- Written by Thessalia Merivaki, Assistant Professor of American Politics, Mississippi State University
With its largely white and older workers, this Portland, Oregon poll site is typical of poll sites across the U.S.Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty ImagesElection officials are busily trying to recruit younger volunteers to staff the United States’ roughly 230,000 polling sites on Election Day in November.
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