Nebraska election officials seek more poll workers amid national shortage

LINCOLN — Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen wants more Nebraskans to be election workers.

His office has estimated that counties need more than 9,000 people to fully staff the state’s polling sites and county election offices for each election. The agency said retired Nebraskans have historically made up the largest portion of the state’s poll workers, but Evnen is urging young Nebraskans to join them.

“We could not conduct our elections smoothly and independently without the work of thousands of Nebraskans who step up and serve their communities as poll workers,” Evnen said.

Nationally, 772,000 Americans served as poll workers in the 2024 presidential election, according to the 2024 Election Administration and Voting Survey Report. That’s down from what’s typically been 1 million.



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