Jenny G. Shao

For the Election of the Century, I joined the Associated Press as a Vote Elections Operator (VEO).  As part of a national team, I tabulated votes remotely into A.P.'s database.  Telecommuting was mandatory due to COVID restrictions.  From home in San Francisco (Ca), I partnered with local stringers and election workers throughout the country to aggregate and update votes from numerous counties across five states.  Stretched over a span of one week, these efforts included:

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• learning and applying election rhetoric

• calling local stringers in the field

• calling county Election Board staff 

• combing and cross-referencing votes with Secretary of State and Election Board sites

•  updating and verifying votes on a daily basis

• working live and simultaneously in different time zones (PST, CST, EST)

• communicating and data entry through various software programs: