Poll Workers
Speaking as one who has reluctantly agreed to serve in November, I suggest that the biggest impediment to volunteering as an election day polling-place worker is not the low pay but the long hours (“L.A. County Faces Shortage of Workers at Polling Places,” Sept. 6).
Instead of doubling the pay for a 14-hour shift, as the registrar-recorder would like, how about, for the same price, dividing the day into two shifts, 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.? I bet many more people would be willing to volunteer. Perhaps this could be tried on an experimental basis in a few precincts?
CAROL D. LANHAM
Los Angeles
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