Village Always on Lookout for New Poll Workers
Village clerk seeking more people to train as national election looms in 2012.
In what was expected to be a very slim election turnout Tuesday, it was nevertheless guaranteed that some people would show up at the polls. They would be the poll workers themselves. So Betsy Erickson, Arlene Mamerow and Phyllis Smestad were ready and waiting at the Sussex Armory first thing in the morning. Poll workers open the polls, help register new voters, get people into the correct lines, confirm their eligibility to vote, hand out ballot, answer questions, oversee the placing of ballots into the counting machines and hand out those stickers that say, "I voted today!" And finally, they help close the polls at the end of the day. "We've got a good turnout so far today – more than we expected," Erickson said. "At 9:30, we're already …
