In the final stretch, Minnesota elections offices have longer hours and growing workloads

For past presidential elections, Hennepin County’s election office typically added about a dozen temporary workers to help manage the rush of voters and ballots.

This year, with the storm of an attention-grabbing presidential race and the first-ever opportunity to vote early without an excuse, officials had to hire another 80 workers, draft Hennepin County employees from other departments, recruit more college students to volunteer, and dedicate an entire floor of a building for storing and sorting ballots.

“We have literally hundreds of people doing that work for us,” said Hennepin County Elections Manager Ginny Gelms.

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