poll worker

[ pohl wur-ker ]

noun

1. a person who volunteers and is officially appointed or trained by a local board of elections to facilitate and oversee elections, including checking in voters, issuing and collecting ballots, and explaining and monitoring the polling equipment.

Word History and Origins

Origin of poll worker¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

In an unrelated incident, officials also arrested a 25-year-old Georgia poll worker Monday after he allegedly made a bomb threat to election workers.

From Los Angeles Times

US intelligence agencies said last week that a video purporting to show a poll worker destroying mail-in ballots marked for Donald Trump in Pennsylvania was "manufactured and amplified" by Russians.

From BBC

The Ware County commission in July removed a new conservative election board member, Michael Hargrove, who had complained about the “Biden/Harris Crime Syndicate” on social media, after he entered a polling site’s restricted area during spring elections and got into a confrontation with a poll worker.

From Salon

The post seemed to be written by an authority figure and urged voters to request new ballots if a poll worker or anyone else wrote on their form, claiming that this would render the forms invalid.

From Salon

I’m a poll worker in metro Atlanta, and I’m already twitchy about the election.

From Salon