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Egremont election worker has been volunteering at the polls for 60 years

Egremont election worker has been volunteering at the polls for 60 years

Update: 2024-11-01
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Marlene Soudant first volunteered as a poll worker in the 1964 presidential election, when Lyndon Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater. She remembers wooden hand-crank ballot boxes and announcing winners to a waiting crowd late at night, before things became computerized.

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Egremont election worker has been volunteering at the polls for 60 years

Egremont election worker has been volunteering at the polls for 60 years

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