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Dedicated but aging, poll workers look for influx of the young

Molly MacKinnon (center foreground) with Michelle Badger (left) and Emma O'Leary are among the more than 100 Suffolk University students who'll be staffing Boston polling locations today. Molly MacKinnon (center foreground) with Michelle Badger (left) and Emma O'Leary are among the more than 100 Suffolk University students who'll be staffing Boston polling locations today. (Pat Greenhouse/ Globe Staff)
By Megan Woolhouse
Globe Staff / November 4, 2008

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When 20-year old Charlene Hay worked the polls in Dorchester during the presidential primary, she noted a key difference between herself and the other workers: Most were half a century - or more - her senior. (Full article: 1124 words)

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