Officials in several key battleground states told ABC News they are still short thousands of poll workers and could be forced to reduce the number of polling locations -- a move that would likely bring longer lines to in-person voting sites.
"Everyone is working really, really hard to find poll workers right now," said Myrna Perez, the director of the Brennan Center's Voting Rights and Elections Program."It's a challenge that we are facing as a country, but it is a challenge that folks are trying really hard to meet."workers across the country handle"the nuts and bolts of what we need to do to make our season run," Perez told ABC News. For years, volunteers have skewed older.
In Ohio, the state is offering attorneys continuing education credits if they volunteer. And the secretary of state launched a"Styling For Democracy" initiative with barbershops and hair salons, to register patrons to vote and, hopefully, sign them up to be poll workers. A range of volunteers are also trying to help. Max Weiss, a law student at William and Mary University, whose grandmother served as a poll worker, started an organization to connect law school students with local election officials in every state to help with processing absentee ballots.
"Our community needs poll workers on Election Day," James tweeted out last week to his 47 million followers. He included a link to the organization"Power the Polls" where volunteers can sign up. "The biggest uncertainty is going to be how many people can be shifted to vote by mail, and how many people are left to vote in person," Ghani explained."Given that we're trying to shift people to vote by mail as much as possible, then the question becomes: Which counties and which precincts are still going to have that gap?"
While many officials remain optimistic they will eventually have enough election workers to avoid a repeat of challenges during the presidential primaries, interest in volunteering is uneven.In Florida, election officials in Hillsborough County and Pinellas County told ABC News they have seen more interest this year from potential volunteers.
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