The city of Madison is requiring that election inspectors and poll workers “Provide proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test, or obtain a medical or religious exemption in advance of working the polls.”
Unfortunately, we can’t know how many unvaccinated citizens were deterred from poll working and election inspecting because they are unvaccinated or reluctant to go through the trouble of taking a Covid test. We also don’t know whether the city was actually granting exemptions or not. What we do know is that the mandate has nothing to do with health or