Johnson County Election Office looking to recruit 400 more workers to staff polls in November

With six weeks to go until the general election, the Johnson County Election Office is making a push to get hundreds of new workers trained and ready to staff polling locations.

The election offices says it hopes to have 2,200 election workers in the field Nov. 6 — and increase of 1,000 from the 1,200 it had at the polls for the primary.

There were around 1,600 election workers signed up to work on Election Day before the Election Office’s recruitment efforts began earlier this month. So far, they’ve had just over 220 new applicants come in, bringing the total available for Election Day to around 1,800. That means the election office will need to recruit and train an additional 400 workers to meet its goal for November.