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Uncle Sam wants you for this year’s general election. New poll workers are in high demand, according to Matt Finfgeld, director of the Richland County Board of Elections. “Poll workers are the ...

The poll worker position has come under scrutiny in recent years, and officials in White County are encouraging people with questions to try their hand at the job.

For this November’s election, no candidate was listed on the ballot for judge of elections in Scranton’s Ward 6, Precinct 1. So the poll worker on duty allegedly wrote her own name on the ballots.

Mail ballots are sorted and counted in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Election Day November 2022. When Pennsylvania holds its 2025 municipal election on Nov. 4, thousands of poll workers will ensure that ...