States Use New Approaches to Recruit New Poll Workers

Poll worker shortages are a common concern of election officials nationwide. In West Virginia and Tennessee, the secretaries of state try out something new to aid recruitment efforts.
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Declare’s Miranda Combs reports from Charleston, West Virginia, where Secretary of State Kris Warner introduced a program on National Poll Worker Recruitment Day this month to bring high schoolers into the process. It’s one example of the different approaches that many chief election officials are taking to ensure that polling sites are adequately staffed. Despite turmoil at the federal level, the Election Assistance Commission, which first established the recruitment day and provides ideas to jurisdictions for programming, continued to promote the effort this year.