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poll worker

[pohl wur-ker]

noun

  1. 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.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of poll worker1

First recorded in 1905–10
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Example Sentences

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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