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poll worker
[ pohl wur-ker ]
noun
- a person who volunteers and is officially appointed or trained by a local board of elections to facilitate and oversee elections, including checking in voters, issuing and collecting ballots, and explaining and monitoring the polling equipment.
Word History and Origins
Origin of poll worker1
Example Sentences
At the edges of the room, local groups had tables where people could sign up to become a poll worker, apply for a mail ballot, or make friendship bracelets, reminiscent of Taylor Swift’s beaded-bracelet craze during her “Eras” tour.
In an unrelated incident, officials also arrested a 25-year-old Georgia poll worker Monday after he allegedly made a bomb threat to election workers.
US intelligence agencies said last week that a video purporting to show a poll worker destroying mail-in ballots marked for Donald Trump in Pennsylvania was "manufactured and amplified" by Russians.
The Ware County commission in July removed a new conservative election board member, Michael Hargrove, who had complained about the “Biden/Harris Crime Syndicate” on social media, after he entered a polling site’s restricted area during spring elections and got into a confrontation with a poll worker.
The post seemed to be written by an authority figure and urged voters to request new ballots if a poll worker or anyone else wrote on their form, claiming that this would render the forms invalid.
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