With fewer than two weeks before the Statewide Presidential Primary Elections, the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC), Dean Logan, stated yesterday that Los Angeles County in general lacks a sufficient number of poll workers. The Department is calling on local citizens to support the democratic process by volunteering as poll workers on Election Day, Tuesday June 5.
“Community pollworkers are essential to fair and open elections,” said Dean Logan. The RR/CC recruits up to 25,000 poll workers every major election. Pollworkers are assigned to work in their local election precinct. Any registered voter can volunteer to serve their local community by working as a pollworker. It is a chance to assist friends and neighbors in exercising their right to vote. “Without poll workers elections cannot function,” concluded Logan.
Interestingly, the cities and neighborhoods experiencing the highest pollworker shortages are characterized by high levels of voter turnout and civic participation.
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