‘This is gonna be like exposure therapy for me’: 3 Gen Zers on why they signed up as poll workers

The average age of poll workers is 64. We spoke to 3 young people (some too young to vote) about what motivated them to sign up.

It takes roughly 1 million people to power a federal Election Day, according to the nonpartisan poll worker registration organization Power the Polls. While more than 775,000 poll workers volunteered in the 2020 election and 644,000 lent their assistance to voters in 2022, a surge in new voter registrations this election season means that polling stations, which are already no strangers to staffing shortages, will likely require an increase in volunteers to administer and ensure safe and secure voting conditions this year.