"We're talking about enormous numbers of poll workers who are not going to feel comfortable, and already have shown it in the primary, being in the polling places in the midst of a pandemic when they have concerns about their health," says Bob Brandon, president of the Fair Elections Center.
"If you have a disability that requires you to be on an accessible machine to vote, you need to be there in person," he says."If you're in a community that has terrible mail service, which many poor communities complain of, that's an important need. Many people in the African American community have a distrust of anything different than taking a ballot and putting it into a machine, because of the history of voter suppression that they've encountered.
Election workers wear masks and face shields and work behind plexiglass while assisting a voter during Maine's primary elections on July 14 in Portland.Election workers wear masks and face shields and work behind plexiglass while assisting a voter during Maine's primary elections on July 14 in Portland.The Fair Elections Center had been working to recruit new poll workers even before the pandemic hit, with adesigned to simplify the process of becoming a poll worker.
We just want to keep our grandparents alive.
Excellent!
Can we also get volunteers for the USPS? Is that a thing?
Thank you so much - more of this please! I'd hedge a bet that the VAST majority of citizens don't know that voting is NOT a protected Constitutional right, & fair/accessible voting comes down to an army of volunteers Younger people need to hear this is a civic responsibility!
npr is propaganda for the democrats. Always biased and screwed.
I hear it at the end of every Daily Show. 🙂 🗳
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