Trumbull high schoolers filling poll posts

WARREN — At a time when elections boards around the state are having increasing difficulties in finding enough poll workers for election day, Trumbull County appears to be heading off the problem by recuiting high numbers of high school students, an area representative for the Ohio Secretary of State’s office says.

Ronald J. Massullo, liaison for Trumbull, Mahoning, Columbiana, Ashtabula and Carroll counties, said officials with the Secretary of State’s office have been impressed with the Trumbull County success in getting high school seniors to work the polls since Ohio law allowed it in November of 2006.

Kelly Pallante, director of Trumbull’s elections board, said high school seniors made up 10 percent, or around 107, of the poll workers working this month’s general election.

“Nobody used it this much in the counties I serve, I can tell you that,” Massullo said.

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