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  • U.S. Short at Least 500,000 Poll Workers(Claims exagerated?)

    10/31/2004 8:34:28 PM PST · by planekT · 2 replies · 204+ views
    ABC News, San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 10/31/04 | self (Vanity)
    ...Estimates are that turnout could reach 120 million -- 14 million more than last time... (from the Chronic ill) ...500,000 poll workers short... (from the ABC article) Saw this AP/ABC piece earlier today and wondered if it was another one of those "exagerations". The AP/ABC story says we will be short 500,000 poll workers across the U.S. this year. They claim the number of poll workers is about the same as it was four years ago, around 1.4 million, and that they really need about 2 million this year to get the job done. The San Francisco Chonicles' projection of...