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America is facing a RECORD shortage of poll workers this year because of COVID-19. The majority of typical poll workers are over 60 years old and many of them can’t work the polls in November because of COVID-19 concerns, so our democracy is depending on young people to STEP UP and become poll workers.
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there’s an apb poll workers wanted
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we are short about 500 poll workers
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facing a shortage of poll workers we
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naturally lose poll workers
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as we approach election day they cannot
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staff even one polling place
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in 111 jurisdictions they’re really
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trying to
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find some co-workers inviting places
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with younger people who maybe could step
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up
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[Music]
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with the pandemic that’s going on that
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the populations that generally serve as
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poll workers don’t want to put
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themselves
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in harm’s way and so they’re not signing
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up to be poll workers again
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a major poll worker shortage all across
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the state nearly 60 percent of wisconsin
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municipalities
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the shortage of experienced poll workers
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due to the covet 19 pandemic
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every time someone would come in they
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would talk about their experience from
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the last election
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and it was never good we’re not trying
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to suppress you at all we’re really
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trying to help you get your vote out
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we’re saying hey we as a community
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are taking elections seriously and we’re
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taking them seriously enough
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to say we’re going to work on election
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day
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to count your ballot democracy only
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functions when
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everyone participates and i want to make
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sure that everyone has the ability and
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access to be able to participate
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all of us have a role and i try to
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remind my peers our
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impacts are a legacy whole workers
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provide an essential service and can be
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the difference between a chaotic
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experience
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and an organized experience
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[Music]
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it takes a few hours they get you set up
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and then they
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assign you to a poll location the
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trainings usually take
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four hours after you get your experience
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you’ll be
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more trained than most people in the
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country i’m in charge of the processing
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i’m
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handling the voters and i’m making sure
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that they have a really good experience
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and i’m getting paid the process
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couldn’t be easier you can head to
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powerthepulse.com
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and input your information and for how
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to become a poll worker in
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every county in the country that meets
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co-workers
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and make a little extra money on the
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side
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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the outlook on our public health changes
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from day to day
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so you could have enough poll workers
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one day
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and a lot of them quit because there’s a
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coveted outbreak that’s why we’re just
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focusing on getting as many of our
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people
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hired and working as possible when you
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know my friends and my peers walked
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through that door and saw my face and
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saw
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younger faces they felt more welcome and
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felt like
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they were represented and people who
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were the kind of gatekeepers to them
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voting because we’ve
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had enough we’ve been forgotten about in
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so many different
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spaces if you want for things to change
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for how it affects you
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sometimes you have to put yourself in
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that position we just don’t need people
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working the polls
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we need young people from 16 25 working
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cold
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as much as possible ultimately the poll
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workers every person
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on election day about standing between
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you and voting our generation i think
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we’re at the unique
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point where we can move past just
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preserving democracy
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but expanding what democracy is in the
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united states
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you
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