Most of them are far younger than the workers I supported when I've been the floater for my county.
Yes especially in busy precincts it is a grueling day, but it was nice in 2008 to walk out and hear the results, plus an entire day free of electioneering! By the time a GE rolls around, I am soooo sick of campaign commercials...
Admittedly I got started doing it because I was interested in the process and worked a Thursday-Sunday job, so had Tuesdays off already.
But they were very happy to have a floater, and sure enough I got called up. Every year that I've been a floater in a primary or general on the day, I've been called up (this year my mom had surgery to set her wrist primary day so I didn't). Because of the already-frail nature of our core workers.
Some changes can't happen overnight, but one is that anyone who was planning on being a volunteer partisan poll watcher in November and has a primary coming up in their state register NOW to be a floating poll worker.
If states hold primary elections on schedule but with the changes a few places had proposed, it would still be far safer for elderly people to do drive-through ballots as some places have done with them being the people in the car/passengers, vs being the ones handling so many drivers licenses/ballots.
And if they don't, this could be worse by the time the primary election actually is held, and those workers may not be there for the rest of us.
Plus, even we get lucky on this and don't overwhelm ICU resources, I hate to say it... but enough of the people who worked the polls in primaries already held may not be here in November to work them to necessitate younger workers taking over this civic duty this year.