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A New Generation of Young Poll Workers is Stepping Up to Protect the Elderly From COVID-19
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A New Generation of Young Poll Workers is Stepping Up to Protect the Elderly From COVID-19

Power the Polls has recruited 450,000 young volunteer poll workers as the elderly stay home to protect themselves from COVID-19.

Politics

During normal election years, it’s typically retired people who step in to act as poll workers every fourth November. But many of America’s elderly are staying home to protect themselves from COVID-19, and now the country’s youth have stepped up to take the reins of civic responsibility.

In a funny turn of events, a web developer in San Francisco that had originally created a website to see if people would help buy pizza for those waiting in line to vote at polling stations—the aptly named Pizza to the Polls—pivoted towards a model of recruiting poll station workers which people informed him were going to be dangerously low in number this year.

This required a change of name as well, to Power the Polls, which has so far recruited 450,000 of the “next generation of poll workers,” 200,000 above their original target of a quarter million.