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peanuthead

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4. Pollworkers are NOT volunteers
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 10:15 AM
Aug 2020

Maybe it would help if the media would stop describing poll workers (in NYS we are called Election Inspectors) VOLUNTEERS.
we are paid for our time and training. We have to go to election inspector school annually to brush up on the technical stuff and election LAW.
We take an oath. Most of us are on the other side of 60. Most of us are female.
At least that's how it is in Delaware County NY where I have served off and on for more than a decade.
Every ED needs two republicans and two democrats usually. this is one of the main reasons for the contraction of polling places in the pandemic.
One reason you see so many retired women as poll workers is that the $180 - $200 an election sure comes in handy.

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