Cities Giving Paid Leave to Employees to Work the Polls

Route Fifty: Government employees in a number of cities can take paid leave to serve as poll workers on Election Day, a move officials said could be a critical strategy to help ease a nationwide shortage of election volunteers prompted by the coronavirus pandemic.

“Typically, most poll workers are older than 60, and that age group is most at-risk for contracting coronavirus,” the Columbia, Missouri city council wrote in a memo attached to a paid-leave proposal on its Oct. 5 meeting agenda. “Boone County has not escaped the national shortage.”

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