Training time for poll workers

YOUNGSTOWN — It’s not as easy as it looks.

That’s why each of the more than 1,000 people who serve as Mahoning County Board of Elections’ poll workers are attending mandatory two-hour-plus training sessions in preparation of the Nov. 6 general election.

At the training sessions, elections board officials went over several things. That includes how to properly shut down the machines, print the results and get the information to the elections board.

“If you look at the election the big hang-up is the closing,” said elections Director Thomas McCabe.

It’s a small number of precincts each year that have trouble closing the machines, he said, but those few cause delays in tabulating election results.

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