The coronavirus pandemic is posing some logistical challenges to the Sedgwick County elections office. Fewer election workers, polling locations and social distancing guidelines are just some of the issues county election commissioner Tabitha Lehman is seeing. Lehman says, over 75 percent of Sedgwick County election workers are in the high-risk categories for coronavirus based on their age alone. So far, the office only has about 30 percent of the workers it needs to put on the election. The elections office is recruiting 16 and 17-year-olds to come work the polls, but that can be a challenge for the November general election which takes place while students are in school. Several polling sites in the county have also backed out, according to Lehman.
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