I understand a very large number of younger people will be working the polls this year. Not only does that relieve vulnerable older people from possible infection, but more to the point it gets the younger generation far more involved. As they should be. As they need to be.
One polling place I've used in recent years is a k-8 school. They have kids there helping out, assisted by adults. I just love it, because those kids get a first hand look at voting. For most of us -- and I am certainly speaking for myself here -- voting is a mysterious, almost hidden thing in our youth. I will say that I did not vote the first time I was old enough, in no small part because I was confused and befuddled by the entire process of registering and then voting. Fortunately, I got over that and have voted ever since. Always in Presidential elections, and as time went by always in primaries, off year elections, and various local elections.
An additional comment about kids. Several years ago, when I was first living here, I had a temp job at a local middle school in the office. If I recall correctly, it was a three day job, answering phones and the like. During the day, various kids in the school would have an hour at a time doing office work. It was wonderful, and I was charmed by them. For one thing, this is Santa Fe, NM, and all of the kids that showed up were fully bi-lingual and if there were two or more of them, they chatted to each other in Spanish. It gave me a chance to try to improve my own understanding of Spanish. Which honestly, I wasn't very good at. But that was my problem, not theirs.
I really like young people. One of the bad things about getting older, and I'm now 72, is how we lose touch with them.
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