How Minnesota is recruiting poll workers in a divisive presidential election

Thousands of Minnesotans will step up to work in polling places on Nov. 5, despite an increasingly charged and divisive presidential election season throughout the state and beyond.

Some 30,000 election judges — critical workers tending to the business of voting — will staff roughly 3,000 polling places across the state, according to Secretary of State Steve Simon.

That number has held true this year despite increased threats against election workers nationwide, spurred by false claims of voter fraud stemming from the 2020 election by former President Donald Trump and his allies.

“There’s a great phrase that says a polling place is meant to be oasis of calm,” Simon said in a recent interview. “In Minnesota, for the most part, they have been.”




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