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In reply to the discussion: In the 1970's I don't remember early voting, and it seemed like every school had voting machines [View all]LiberalFighter
(50,754 posts)We were originally going to have 116 polling places but had 25 polling places in the primary and will be having 70 for the general.
Registered voters: Active (225,702) - Inactive (32,148)
Precincts: 292
County population: 379,299
County Land size: 660 sq miles
Schools were used in the primary mainly because schools were closed. Generally schools have not been used for years.
Our party assigned 256 election workers. Usually it would take over a month to get them all filled. In this case, because he found it easier to he made all calls from home instead of from party hdqtrs by himself. It took him 2 weeks to get them all filled.
For the first time we got emails from the Election Board with people signing up requesting to work. I gather the data needed on each person into a database and regularly sent them on ready to print forms. There were 278 of which 98 were assigned in addition to our regular election workers. There were quite a few of our regulars that decided not to work this election too mainly because of the concern about the virus.
The Republicans have their positions to fill and have Inspectors that we don't have as part of our group. For some reason, the Republicans have a more difficult time filling their positions and apparently even more so this election. We ended up filling 53 additional positions that were Republican positions. Some of our people didn't even want to accept being assigned to those positions.
The makeup of our election workers are usually mostly seniors. I haven't done a breakdown but the new workers likely dropped the average age down. And there were some 16 to not yet 18 year olds assigned too.