Staff needed to work across 7,500 polling places, with Covid contingency planning adding to challenges
The pandemic, though, will add to this election’s challenges. For instance, each polling place will have a hygiene officer, and the AEC has to be ready in case local jurisdictions impose last-minute restrictions to cope with spikes in Covid cases.
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