With the presidential election set for two weeks from Tuesday, state officials are saying the biggest shortage of poll workers seems to be in Brown County.
There are about 180 openings in 51 municipalities statewide. Poll workers organize voters as they enter, verify their identifications, and give them the ballot they need to mark their choices. Wisconsin Elections Commission interim administrator Meagan Wolfe says it looks like Green Bay needs about another 30 polls workers. Local officials say the people who normally do that job were in their 70s and 80s and the coronavirus pandemic made it necessary to replace them.
