Dozens of high school students in central Illinois will serve as election judges at the polls this Election Day.
Junior or senior high school students are eligible to be election judges if they have a 3.0 GPA, have permission from a parent or guardian and their high school principal and go through training. Piatt County Clerk Colleen Kidd says the teens can be particularly helpful because much of the voting process is now technology-based and older election judge sometimes have trouble.
Piatt County is enlisting eight student judges for the first time this year. Other counties, such as Champaign and Vermilion, have been using student judges for years.