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Too Young to Vote but Old Enough to Run an Election: Facing Shortage of Poll Workers, Md. and D.C. Join List of Jurisdictions Hiring High School Students
Colleen Jenkins | Washington Post
August 29, 2002

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Maryland has now joined more than a dozen states that are recruiting high school students who haven't reached legal voting age to work as poll workers on election day. The Help America Vote Act, an election reform bill currently being debated in Congress, has provisions to employ both high school and college students as poll workers nationwide. Advocates of using high school students as poll workers say the students get a civic education while shortages of available poll workers are alleviated.

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