An election worker at a poling station in Miami during last month's election there. The coronavirus pandemic is challenging election officials, whose own staffers are coming sick with the virus.Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images
before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. They're now dealing with more serious personnel strains even as the workload becomes increasingly intense. "We at the Board have a legal mandate to conduct our jobs. The continuity of government depends in part on some of the work that we're doing," election director Michael Ryan told WNYC.
Across the Hudson River in New Jersey, Hudson county clerk E. Junior Maldonado, whose office oversees elections there, has tested positive for the virus. And in Washington, D.C., the Board of Elections shut it's offices to the public because several employees showed symptoms of the disease after coming in contact with a resident who had tested positive.
WOW! May God bring peace to the families.
This is why we need votingbymail in US. When did election officials play role of firstresponders putting lives on line due to COVID19 in the USA? Should be national & universal as a civilright Election2020 USElection CoronavirusUSA HealthCitizenship HealthConsuming
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