Hi I’m Betsy and I’m a retired school social worker after about 27 years of doing that.
I’m the mother of one and they are in their 20s now so I spend a lot of my time in my garden and hiking the state in different locations just enjoying Wisconsin.
Being a poll worker has a lot of roles – from greeting people, to checking IDs, to filling out the poll books, to giving out ballots, to saying goodbye to people and giving them the nice little I voted sticker, which is like the favorite part of the job is getting the sticker.
Everything that we do at every station that we work at is all redundant. There’s always two people doing it. Before every election there’s a training and we talk about all the things we’re supposed to be doing and any new things that might come up, but we all talk about this is how you do these things this is why you do these things, this is how you stay inclusive and neutral.
All of us sign a document saying that we won’t influence anyone there or speak about any candidates, or in any way influence anyone or look at anyone’s ballot under penalty of law.
Even though I’ve worked at the polls with people who I know have very very different political opinions than I do we all take it very extremely seriously we take it as almost like a sacred duty to our country that we’re doing this.
That’s why our elections are secure and safe and we can rely on them.
