Poll Worker at Chicago Voting Site Dies of Coronavirus, Election Officials Say

[RandySF]

A poll worker who was stationed at a Chicago voting site on election day died from the coronavirus, the Chicago Board of Elections said Monday.

The person was a city employee who was working the March 17 election at the Zion Hill Baptist Church in the city's 17th Ward, officials said Monday. City officials identified him as Revall Burke. The Cook County Medical Examiner's office said Burke, 60, died on April 1.

The Board will be sending letters to all poll workers at that location as well as voters who cast their ballots there in person, field investigators and cartage companies who may have been around at the time the worker was there, Board of Elections spokesman Jim Allen said.



https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/poll-worker-at-chicago-voting-site-dies-of-coronavirus-election-officials-say/2255072/

[flying_wahini]

1. I am a poll worker in Texas and my lead official stated he wouldn't be back.

I have to say I think I may decline when asked and vote by mail if possible.
The last 2 times we had such little help the 3 of us worked 13 hour days both times.

We keep asking for more people but no such luck. And that was before the plague.

[LisaL]

4. We need the post office to vote by mail.

[LiberalFighter]

6. Where I am at poll workers have to work 14 hours minimum for base rate $85.

I keep trying to get the Election Board to go for two shifts so that it is not as much of a stress. Most of our election workers are retired and have some in their late 80's.

[customerserviceguy]

2. I wonder

how many poll workers will die in Wisconsin because Bernie Sanders wanted one more crack at taking down Joe Biden.

[tblue37]

5. Wisconsin was mainly about the seat on the state supreme court, which is why the GOP was so

intent on voter suppression.

[tblue37]

3. In another week we'll have an idea about how many voters & poll workers in Wisconsin ended

up with cv-19 because of the GOP's focus on voter suppression.