(CNN) As more early voting sites open across the country, election officials have faced a significant challenge: Staffing those sites with poll workers. During the 2016 election, nearly 1 million poll workers staffed voting locations across the country, according to the US Election Assistance Commission . A surge in sign-upsWith recruitment deadlines approaching, election officials are reporting that many people have answered the call. She's one of the thousands of new poll workers to sign up for the first time this summer. Over the last two months, they've received 33,000 submissions to become a poll worker.

Source: CNN September 26, 2020 12:33 UTC