The Workers of the Nancy Cantor Warehouse Polling Site
By Alexander Eisman
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) – The task of working at a polling site may not be the most glamorous job, but it is essential to the electoral process.
Eddie Bell, a poll worker at the Nancy Cantor Warehouse on Election Day, says that being at the polls has been a part of his life for many years.
“Somebody’s got to do it. And it’s a family affair. My mother used to do it and she got me into doing it and that’s why I do it. And because I want to know who’s running and who I’m voting for,” said Bell.
This year’s election is local, and poll worker Cheryl Brown says that makes all the more importance to voters’ everyday lives.
“You have the control at the local level, you don’t have the control at the national level. So you can select a candidate at the national level, but everything else is local. It determines your taxes, it determines everything about your life,” said Brown.
Local elections generally see lower turnout than midterm and presidential election years, but poll worker Mary Frances Saban says she does not want to hear complaints about politics from those who did not choose to vote locally.
“If you haven’t done your duty to research the candidates and the issues and then have voted, don’t start talking to me about things are wrong because you wanted somebody else to win,” said Saban.
