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Pandemic primary: why I volunteered at a polling station despite coronavirus

A poll worker talks about voting during a pandemic, and what happens when social responsibility clashes with civic duty

When a primary takes place during a pandemic, civic duty clashes with social responsibility. Everybody should stay in. Everybody should vote.

My story begins on the Friday before the Tuesday primary in Florida. I saw a post on Facebook that urged healthy people who could help out on election day to become poll workers. About 100 poll workers (probably older folks) in Alachua county, where I attend university, had dropped out due to coronavirus fears.

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Source: Elections - theguardian.com


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