Experts are worried about a poll worker shortage. These students are recruiting young people to help.
In late July, Lucy Duckworth saw a friend’s Instagram story sharing information about something called “The Poll Hero Project.”“When I had seen it three, four, five times, I decided to click on it myself,” Duckworth, 17, told NBC News. “It goes to show you the power of social media to organize young people.”” to become a poll worker this November in her home state of Pennsylvania.
It blew that projection away, recruiting approximately 1,500 young people in approximately three weeks to become poll workers in their communities this November.
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