This PK Karlsson guy sounds like a pretty good defenceman ! <| sep |> I ' m an election worker . It is indeed paid $ 200 bucks for 530 am to at least 9 pm but it ' s basically like volunteering . They don ' t have enough people most of the time . I take off from work to participate and it ' s not for the money , it ' s because they need help and I think election integrity requires vigilance . Especially after I was purged from the rolls this year in NY two days prior to that primary . Then I moved to NJ and started working their primary and general . In NJ , there ' s training on operation of the machine for superficial use and printing stuff out but we don ' t touch anything else , they ' re managed by the Board of Elections and the County Clerk . There ' s no mechanism for us to do anything but call it in if breaks . We do some housekeeping and handling books , just help people get it done that ' s the main thing . Training was about an hour , necessary about twice a decade . In the ward I work , which is mostly lower income black and hispanic voters of all ages along with some young professionals from a building or two , and two very angry old white men who show up and start mouthing off before they get in the door . There ' s one older woman over 60 who has been working this area for 25 years , two in their twenties and one in her forties , all hispanic . They ' re all members of the very tight knit and very kind community the ward consists of and , some of the workers are related . I ' m in my early thirties , white tech workerowner . This was my second election , both in this ward . I and the eldest worker live in the next ward over . Very Dem leaning ward in the election and ten fold Dem GOP turnout . Just some more details about how some places workers like mine actually come together . The workers are reasonably diverse as the areas they serve . They ' re usually community leaderselders and not party people and the people that those folks recruit , which includes younger workers and gets the next generation running .