Over 150,000 veterans and military family members recruited to staff polling places for Election Day

Veterans and subject families are falling successful by the thousands to unit polling places crossed the country, according to a veterans' coalition.

Vet the Vote conjugation precocious announced that aft its recruitment efforts, 163,000 veterans and subject families volition enactment connected Election Day to assistance facilitate the vote.

This fig acold exceeds the 63,500 veterans and subject household members who were successfully recruited to enactment successful polling places during the 2022 midterm elections, erstwhile the run was archetypal launched.

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According to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), 917,694 canvass workers worked during the 2016 predetermination and a bulk of jurisdictions polled reported that it was "very difficult" oregon "somewhat difficult" to get a capable fig of canvass workers.

"Vet the Vote is simply a nationalist non-partisan, nonprofit run to enlistee veterans and subject household members to beryllium the adjacent procreation of canvass workers," reads their ngo statement.

A canvass worker, center, works astatine a array arsenic voters hole to formed their ballots during aboriginal voting successful the wide election, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, successful Fall River, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

The conjugation represents 43 advocacy groups and different organizations. It has precocious partnered with sponsors similar NASCAR, the NFL and the NBA.

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"Our assemblage makes for a bully workforce" to instrumentality connected the nuts and bolts of moving 1 of the much than 132,000 polling stations expected to beryllium signaling votes adjacent Tuesday, said Ellen Gustafson, a Navy spouse and co-founder of the Vet the Vote enactment to Military.com.

According to Gustafson, the particularly charged governmental situation going into adjacent Tuesday has posed a situation uniquely suited to veterans and subject families.

A canvass idiosyncratic holds an American emblem adjacent a voting booth astatine a polling determination wrong Seafood City Market during the past time of aboriginal voting successful Las Vegas, Nevada, US, connected Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. Donald Trump and his allies are telling supporters that they're connected gait for a runaway triumph barring fraud, mounting the signifier for outrage and ineligible challenges if the predetermination doesn't interruption successful favour of Republicans. (Ian Maule/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"Yeah, we definite are proceeding astir threats. There are radical questioning the integrity of our elections," said Gustafson to Military.com, and "that includes questioning the integrity of the canvass workers who bash the work. I deliberation we are comfy with the thought that sometimes situations are challenging and the archetypal extremity is to de-escalate."

Most canvass workers motion up for agelong days, with astir starting retired astatine 5:30 am. Over fractional of canvass workers successful 2016 according to the EAC were aged 60 oregon over.

Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 5. 

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