USA Today: How some veterans find a way to 'serve the country again' on Super Tuesday

WASHINGTON − For Christa Sperling, an Air Force veteran, spending Super Tuesday at a polling location in Asheville, North Carolina, is a way to serve her country again. 

Sperling hopes her first time as a poll worker on Tuesday will help voters have more faith in the election process by seeing military veterans helping at their local precincts. She is among a wave of veterans volunteering to help fill the nationwide poll worker shortage.

We the Veterans and Military Families, an organization that formed after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol to empower veterans to strengthen democracy, launched the Vet the Vote initiative in 2022 to promote positive civic engagement and increase confidence in elections. Concerns about the integrity of U.S. elections escalated after former President Donald Trump made false claims about the 2020 election in an attempt to overturn the results.

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