How a Newport brewery is helping recruit poll workers

Wooden Cask Brewing Company is one of four breweries allowing election officials to put a QR code on cans and bottle labels.

KENTUCKY IS USING BEER TO FINDPOLLWORKERS.COMMITMENTS ARE FEWAND CONCERNS ABOUT A SHORTAGEHURTING NOVEMBER ELECTIONS --BREWED A NEW RECRUITING TOOLCRAFTED TO SOOTHE ALL THATAILS.HERE'S REPORTER LARRYSEWARD.at newport's wooden caskbrewingcompany......they're labeling craft beerwith politicalads."as long as it's not partisan,i'm fine withit."it's a plea for poll workersand Q-R code thatleads smartphone drinkers tokentucky's secretary ofstate's website to sign up fortraining."we're seeing a lot ofcreative ways to reachpotential pollworkers."the beer idea started inohio.its supreme court agreedto let lawyers collectcontinuing education credit inexchange for workingpolls.on top of companies likewestern and southern lifepaying employees to staffelection precincts...college sports teams acrossthe country are recruitingtoo.according to the u-s electionassistance committee... halfthe nation's veteran pollworkers are in age groups mostvulnerable to covid-19.ohio has a new onlinetracker to track of eachcounty's poll staffing needs.("...election day will lookmuch different..."inkentucky... secretary of statemichael adams warns there willbe fewer polling places ifthey don't have 15-thousandpollworkers.former chief electionsofficer trey grayson told uscounties like campbell haveall the workers they need.butrepublican rich boonecounty... needs more democratsto take polljobs."all these things matter.

Ifyou have fewer polling placesthat means you're going tohave a longer drive from yourplace of employement or home.what if there's trafficdelays?

So, if it's closer tohome, closer to work, you'remore likely to be able to votein person."wanting youngerrecruits... election officialscalled kentucky's guild ofbrewers to buy ads on beer.schiltz is on theboard."if my beer helps anotherissue then i'm all for it."hercompany is one of fouroffering space on can andbottlelabels."i don't want them to have toshut down polling locationsbecause they have not enoughpollworkers...""if i can get the youngercrowd there to help, you know,it feels like i did my part."in newport... larry seward...wcpo... ninenews.seward... wcpo... innewport... larryseward... wcpo... ninenews.