helped North Carolina and other states through targeted ads and News Feed messages with links to the poll worker application.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nGrant said he didn\u2019t know the demographics of registered poll workers in each county but that many previous volunteers are still helping again this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cA lot of the people that are poll workers are very dedicated to the process of serving and have done it for years, he said. \u201cThis wasn’t going to stop them.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nHe said there will be safety precautions at all at polling locations. Poll workers will have personal protective equipment, including masks and gloves, and locations will be frequently sanitized. There also will be dividers to minimize contact with voters.<\/span><\/p>\nWhen The 9th Street Journal asked about details in the spreadsheet on Friday, Grant said it was last updated on Sep. 21 and was outdated and incomplete due to a lack of response from county board of election departments. But many counties, including Wake are marked on it as fully covered.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe effort also got a boost from the North Carolina Office of State Human Resources, which is offering employees three days of community service leave to work in the election.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAlthough most needs are met, the state is continuing to target counties to build a reserve of volunteers through Facebook advertisements and OSHR emails. These counties include: Anson, Ashe, Avery, Beaufort, Caswell, Chowan, Cumberland, Dare, Duplin, Graham, Hoke, Johnston, Lenoir, Montgomery, Northampton, Rutherford, Stanly, Wilkes and Watauga.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nYet one month to election day, Grant\u2019s biggest fear is one that is out of his control: an outbreak of the virus.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201c<\/b>It’s not a fear that we’re not going to have enough workers because of an outbreak,\u201d he said. \u201cWe just don’t want to see anybody get hurt on the job or go through this because you’re volunteering in the election.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Damon Circosta may be able to sleep better now. The chair of the North Carolina State Board of Elections said a month ago that his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[135,136,262],"class_list":["post-4150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-election-2020","tag-elections","tag-state-board-of-elections","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n
One month before Election Day, poll worker needs are largely filled - 9th Street Journal<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n