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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

ICYMI - Power the Polls

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Comedy, Daily News, News

4.413.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Jaboukie Young-White talks to Power the Polls co-director Scott Duncombe about the dire need for additional poll workers to ensure everyone can vote safely and on time in the 2020 election.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:02.8

BAM!

0:04.8

Unfortunately, coronavirus has prevented many elderly poll workers from helping out this

0:09.7

year.

0:10.7

So we could see even longer voting lines than usual.

0:14.4

But luckily, people have been coming up with some creative solutions.

0:19.0

There is an energetic effort you might even call it frantic and some jurisdictions.

0:22.8

To recruit a new generation of poll workers to replace older ones, that's meant creative

0:27.3

recruiting tactics like allowing 17-year-old high school seniors to serve as poll workers.

0:32.4

In just a few months, they've gotten more than 30,000 kids to step up.

0:37.1

An army of kids working from their bedrooms, using their social media skills.

0:42.2

You guys hear me?

0:43.1

This TikTok rocking up nearly 200,000 views.

0:47.3

Wisconsin using National Guard troops to work the state's primary.

0:51.3

In Battleground, Ohio, they're recruiting at barber shops.

0:54.9

And companies like Old Navy and Target offering employees a paid day off to man the polls.

1:00.6

Laker-Star LeBron James, helping get out the vote his new voting initiative has recruited

1:06.0

10,000 poll workers at Newport's Woodencast Brewing Company.

1:11.4

They're labeling craft beer with political ads.

1:14.2

It's a plea for poll workers and QR code that leads smartphone drinkers to Kentucky

1:18.2

Secretary of State's website to sign up for training.

1:21.0

Okay, so the good news is there might be a lot of new poll workers.

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