Stars and Stripes: Veterans group kicks off campaign at Super Bowl to attract poll workers for November elections

A veterans group is partnering with the NFL ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl in Las Vegas to build trust about voting in the upcoming presidential election and recruit military families as volunteer poll workers in November. “We are in Vegas to promote positive patriotism,” said Joe Plenzler, a Marine Corps veteran and board member with We the Veterans, a nonprofit that kicked off the “2024 Vet the Vote” campaign this week at the Super Bowl Experience, which runs through Saturday at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in the host city. Thousands of Super Bowl fans are in attendance and checking out the Vet the Vote campaign booth, he said, in addition to attending autograph sessions with the players and going to other football-oriented activities. The NFL is among 36 organizations supporting the 2024 Vet the Vote campaign. We the Veterans seeks to build upon its success in 2022 during the midterm elections, when it turned out more than 63,000 former service members and their family members as election volunteers. Veterans and their families helped fill a substantial shortfall of poll workers two years ago, Plenzler said.

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