Election offices around the U.S. are dealing with serious personnel strains as workloads increase — and the COVID-19 pandemic endures. Two staffers at New York City's Board of Elections have died of the infection and 15 have tested positive.
An election worker at a poling station in Miami during last month's election there. The coronavirus pandemic is challenging election officials, whose own staffers are coming sick with the virus.Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images
before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. They're now dealing with more serious personnel strains even as the workload becomes increasingly intense. "We at the Board have a legal mandate to conduct our jobs. The continuity of government depends in part on some of the work that we're doing," election director Michael Ryan told WNYC.
Across the Hudson River in New Jersey, Hudson county clerk E. Junior Maldonado, whose office oversees elections there, has tested positive for the virus. And in Washington, D.C., the Board of Elections shut it's offices to the public because several employees showed symptoms of the disease after coming in contact with a resident who had tested positive.
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