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Last-minute assignments, lack of training left Pittsburgh-area poll workers unprepared on Election Day

Spotlight PA and Votebeat interviewed eight Allegheny County poll workers, who suggested the success seen on Nov. 3 was far from inevitable.

About two weeks before Election Day, Becca Levine, 27, got a phone call from a county official telling her she would be a judge of elections on Nov. 3.
About two weeks before Election Day, Becca Levine, 27, got a phone call from a county official telling her she would be a judge of elections on Nov. 3.Read moreNate Smallwood / Tribune-Review / Nate Smallwood / Tribune-Review