This story is from NBC News by Kalhan Rosenblatt

In late July, Lucy Duckworth saw a friend’s Instagram story sharing information about something called “The Poll Hero Project.”

Then she saw another. And another.

“When I had seen it three, four, five times, I decided to click on it myself,” Duckworth, 17, told NBC News. “It goes to show you the power of social media to organize young people.”

By the end of the day, Duckworth, a high school student, had signed up with “The Poll Hero Project” to become a poll worker this November in her home state of Pennsylvania.

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