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Missing sleep to work the polls
By Lenora Lake
9:35 a.m. New Tampa Baptist Church, 14801 Livingston Ave.
“Steady trickle” is the answer given by election poll workers at Precinct 581 in north Tampa when asked how the voting traffic has been. It has been one or two voters at a time most of the time.
One poll worker said she has already looked through two magazines in the stack she brought with her. Others talk among themselves what has brought them to work the 14-hour day. Most are retired. One is a young woman, who tells the others: “I work the graveyard shift. This would be my sleeping time.”
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