I Worked the Polls in Trump Country — and Left More Confused Than Ever
There aren’t a lot of Democrats up here, which is why I got the job
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6 min readNov 4, 2020
I didn’t check the box volunteering to be an “election inspector,” as poll workers in New York state are called, just to have an excuse to stay off my phone on November 3. That would be the bonus. I did it to be civic-minded. To…