Fox2 in St. Louis reported that city election day poll workers will be receiving a big boost in pay. It seems they currently do not have enough people to run the precincts efficiently and hope more money will bring in more workers. This election 300 dollars will be the pay. This is fair in my opinion. Working elections, which I did for over 20 years, can be very tiring and very boring on those times when very few voters care to come and vote. You must get to the precinct at least an hour before the polls open to set up, sit around all day until they close. After that is verifying the ballot counts etc, and taking them all to some official drop off place. Long day.
I looked to see what Madison County is paying this year. It's 125 dollars now with an extra 25 for attendance at the pre-election briefing. Also an extra 35 if doing nursing home ballots. Not bad, but frankly some election days go from 5 in the morning til 8 or 9 at night with many hours of just sitting and watching the clock move slowly. Madison County election people have long made sure everyone knew what they were doing and ran very efficient elections.
I did enjoy doing this however, and hope there are still people who will continue working the polls.