Word: worker
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...poll worker emerges to smoke. "We can't touch anything until 7," she shouts. "We're all reader for yinz. There won't be any problems." "Yinz" is Pittsburgh slang for "you." University of Pittsburgh student Heather Derby, 27, once an Army sergeant in Iraq , is first in line. She's a Republican. "McCain's a good candidate and he does a lot for the military and he might be the best candidate for what's going on in Iraq ," she says, "but for other things I like Obama better." By the time the doors open, there are 29 people...
Tallahassee: What Problems? 6:00 a.m. E.T. The sun has yet to rise over the Church of the Nazarene in Tallahassee as poll worker Curt Hall pulls out the chalk line. For the past four years, the retiree has been an election volunteer at the church, which serves as the polling place for Precincts 5213 and 5214. Hall marches off 100 feet and places a marker. When the polls open in less than an hour, the only people allowed within that radius will be those ready to cast a ballot. He points to a hedge on the other side...
...nightstick, but he was asked to leave by police, who had been summoned by a Republican poll watcher. By mid-afternoon, as media began to gather, one uniformed but unarmed man remained, handing out literature to voters, but he angrily refused to answer any questions. A credentialed Obama poll worker, who identified himself as James Orman, said the uniformed man was a representative of the Obama campaign, though he curtly refused to answer any additional questions or identify the uniformed man by name. He advised the uniformed man not to say anything further to the press...
Inside, election challengers and poll watchers hovered as election judges signed people in and handed out ballots. A young African-American man was waved off when he attempted to use his U.S. passport as identification. "Don't you have something with an address?" asked the poll worker. Told he did not, she passed him off to another judge. He eventually was given a ballot...
...looks like a virtual dead heat in the polls. Much of it will depend on how much both slates of candidates can get their supporters to actually show up at the polls. That's why on a recent Wednesday night, Chuck Stouder, a 58-year-old RV plant worker, walked from house to house in a leafy, Elkhart County subdivision. His target: Democrats, and voters who had yet to choose a presidential candidate. Some folks didn't bother opening their doors. Some were receptive. In 2004, President Bush won roughly 70% of this county's voters. But this year, Stouder...