As the federal government shrinks and businesses around the Washington area try to plan, temporary workers offer a brief ...

During her six years as elections director, Brinson Bell contended with COVID, Helene and an unprecedented effort to overturn the results of a Supreme Court election.

Allegheny County election officials are aiming to fill roughly 800 positions as poll workers throughout the county prepare to head to their assigned precincts for the 2025 primary election on Tuesday.

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO/WTVG) - Ohio Secretary of State, Frank LaRose, is urging people to consider becoming a poll worker for the upcoming May 6 statewide election. “Our elections depend on ...

Election boards and poll workers are under more scrutiny, driven, in part, by leaders and officials who say abusive behavior is acceptable. Jennifer Ping, vice chair of the Marion County Election ...

For disabled and chronically ill poll workers, Election Day—which can mean 14-hour shifts—certainly takes the cake. Being a poll worker can be a meaningful civic duty for those who participate.

Poll workers have faced harassment and worse, simply for doing the job we all rely on from them. The FBI has fielded 2,000 reports of threats against poll workers, ...

One by one, they would form lines in front of tables where a few poll workers stood. My job was to check the ID of each person who came to our table, make sure they were eligible to vote, and hand ...

JONES COUNTY, Ga. (WANF/Gray News) - A poll worker was charged after a threatening letter was sent to the elections superintendent in Jones County, Georgia, according to the Justice Department ...

The “Vote Center Handbook,” a guide used by the Orange County Registrar of Voters to train election workers and operate the county’s 184 vote centers, runs 235 pages, give or take a few ...

A physical altercation ensued at the Orangeburg County Library, an early voting center, after a man wearing a “Let’s Go Brandon” hat had a verbal argument with poll workers ...

The civics-textbook description of a poll monitor’s job is straightforward enough: ... A Trump supporter looks to sign-up poll workers at a rally in Wilmington, N.C., last month.