Barbara Bush Volunteers to Be a Poll Worker for the Presidential Election
As the country nears an unprecedented Election Day, with states scrambling to make arrangements for mail-in voting and fearing a shortage of poll workers, Barbara Bush has decided to do her part to help. George W. Bush's daughter and her husband, Craig Coyne, have signed up to staff the polls.
"Last week was National Poll Worker Day, and we have a shortage of poll workers in the United States. And so my husband and I both volunteered to be poll workers. We'll see what that means for us," Barbara told People. "I don't know where we'll be. But we're fortunate that we are both healthy, and are not an at-risk population, and can quarantine ourselves after that, beforehand and after."
The couple has been living with Barbara's parents, George and Laura Bush, for the past five months amid the pandemic. And like millions of other Americans, she's been working from home.
"I've started a new job to work on social change issues virtually a handful of weeks ago, and I will see where that goes," Barbara said. "I'm excited through that to be able to work on health, what I've always loved, and the social determinants of health, which are critical to address right now with COVID, and also to support Black Lives Matter." She continued, "It's very important to me to be involved with the movement for Black lives and doing what we can to support racial justice in the United States."
As a former First Daughter of a Republican president, Barbara's support for Black Lives Matter and interest in facilitating an election underscore how the conservative party's old guard continues to balk at Donald Trump's decisions; the current President has called BLM a "symbol of hate" and repeatedly undermined faith in the electoral process. A recent New York Times report claimed that George W. Bush did not support Trump's reelection.
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