Weld Recruiting Military Veterans, Families To Serve As Poll Workers

West Virginia Senate Majority Whip Ryan Weld believes military veterans could make ideal poll workers at election time, and he wants to recruit them to provide that public service.

Weld, R-Brooke, is himself an Air Force veteran, and he knows what training these citizens have.

“Veterans make good poll workers,” he said. “Think about the skills we learn in the military – organization, teamwork.

“When you are in a voting precinct, you have to be organized and you have to be able to work with others. You have to be able to get everything in order.”

In the military, recruits are taught all about following procedures, Weld continued.