As Massachusetts voters went to the polls Tuesday, city clerks around the state went to work, managing hundreds of city employees, poll workers and volunteers for one marathon day.
GBH News' Carrie Saldo spent the day with Niko Vangjeli. When he emigrated to the U.S. some two decades ago from Albania, he barely spoke English. Now, he’s city clerk of Worcester, New England’s second largest city, where he makes sure the city’s 50 precincts run smoothly on election night for the 111,000 registered voters.
Most people don’t know Vangjeli’s name, and that’s fine with him. In fact, most city clerks are fairly anonymous.
“The best city clerks are the ones that nobody notice,” said former Worcester Mayor Raymond Mariano. “They should go in, handle all the paperwork, manage the election, and no one should have to worry about it. And they work incredibly hard to do that.”
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