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Hansi Lo Wang

The midterm elections need workers. Teens, veterans and lawyers are stepping up

Suseela Kandasamy, left, watches Montgomery County Board of Elections official Ruel Michelin hand her 13-year-old son, Aadhavan Muralidharan, an application to be a student aide to poll workers in Wheaton, Md. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for NPR)

Help is wanted at many voting sites around the U.S. as the general election season gets underway this month.

In some communities, however, the ongoing COVID pandemic and current political climate are not making it easy to find paid and volunteer poll workers, forcing election officials to count on creative ways to staff up for democracy.

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