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SMITH COUNTY —\u00a0As Smith County election crews prepare for another election on June 13, workers are doing their best to fight fatigue, according to our news partner KETK. For the third time in less than a month, Smith County election officials are setting up polling locations.<\/p>\n
\u201cActively working on the May 2 election, the May 26 election and the June 13th election all at the same time,\u201d Smith County Elections Administrator Michelle Allcon said.<\/p>\n
The June 13 runoff election will see Tyler residents choose their new mayor, and with early voting starting on Monday, people like Charlie Coleman are working behind the scenes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a lot of wires; we have several different pieces of equipment,\u201d Smith County Elections Clerk Judge Charlie Coleman said. \u201cWe have a lot of cords, and we just have to make sure everything is connected properly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coleman says during the early voting period, his team can work twelve-hour shifts, five days a week. \u201cIt does get tedious after a while, I mean we just came off of a primary runoff last week where we worked seven to seven the entire week and by the end of it, we were all pretty tired,\u201d Coleman said.<\/p>\n
Despite the long days, Coleman enjoys giving people an opportunity to voice their opinions.\u00a0\u201cAlmost all of the people are real good to work with and they\u2019re anxious to vote,\u201d Coleman said.<\/p>\n
As poll workers across Smith County prepare ballots, Allcon is asking voters to show some compassion. \u201cJust be patient and kind to those poll workers; most of them have worked multiple elections this year,\u201d Allcon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SMITH COUNTY —\u00a0As Smith County election crews prepare for another election on June 13, workers are doing their best to fight fatigue, according to our news partner KETK. For the third time in less than a month, Smith County election officials are setting up polling locations. \u201cActively working on the May 2 election, the May … Continue reading Poll workers battle election fatigue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1511429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/smithcountypollworkers-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1511360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 02:09:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/smithcountypollworkers-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1511360"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511394,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511360\/revisions\/1511394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1511429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1511360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1511360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1511360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}