On Monday, the executive director of the Illinois Democratic Party admitted that the number of volunteers for Tuesday’s primary election has plunged because of the coronavirus. Mary Morrissey told Hill.TV, “That is the biggest crisis in terms of the election right now is we need election judges. It’s critical that we have election judges tomorrow.” She stated, “In terms of efforts to protect volunteers and protect workers, the election authorities have made sure that the workers have gloves, that there’s hand sanitizer.”
Morrissey said “one of the biggest challenges for the election authorities” was that nursing homes typically used for polling places were unavailable, although the fact that schools had closed permitted more use of them as polling places.
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