Voting sites have been relocated away from senior homes, new cleaning protocols for election equipment are place and absentee voting is strongly encouraged.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, right, elbow bumps Michele Engelbach, left. Engelbach runs a senior living home in Mt. Vernon, Ohio where a voting place was moved out of due to the coronavirus outbreak.Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, right, elbow bumps Michele Engelbach, left. Engelbach runs a senior living home in Mt. Vernon, Ohio where a voting place was moved out of due to the coronavirus outbreak.
A sign in Franklin County, Ohio warning voters that a polling place has moved due to the coronavirus outbreak. 163 voting locations in Ohio have been moved out of senior homes at the last minute.A sign in Franklin County, Ohio warning voters that a polling place has moved due to the coronavirus outbreak. 163 voting locations in Ohio have been moved out of senior homes at the last minute."It was a difficult decision," said Secretary of State Frank LaRose, who issued the order.
Rosenfield, a longtime voter rights advocate, described how every year she and her fellow 450 residents go to the home's auditorium to cast their ballot. "We are losing poll workers late in the process," says Sellers, noting about 200 poll workers in the county dropped out over just two days."You know, we're trying to, you know, reach out to anybody that we can to get some additional poll workers to fill in the spots that that are opening up."
"We just weren't certain that we would be able to assure them enough supplies to be protected. So we thought a delay was in order," Ardoin told NPR'sWisconsin is scheduled to hold its primary on April 7 and officials in Milwaukee are trying to recruit younger poll workers to replace some of the older workers., more than half of Milwaukee's poll workers are over the age of 60.
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