Many of them worked 16-hour shifts. One group of poll workers in Boone County had a lot of time on their hands.

As voters trickled in and out on a rainy election day next to Missouri's busiest interstate, election officials Nancy and Jim Davenport were not so busy.

"Normally at these minor elections we dont have much of a turnout," Nancy said. Just a handful of voters arrive - about ten every hour starting at the crack of dawn.

"You're talking about a 16-hour day by the time we get home,"said Jim. Voting machines sounded as a few voters came and went.

"We talk to each other, nothing else we can do," said Nancy. They talk about what they'd be doing on their time off.

"Larry likes to fish.... he's gonna use his favorite bait: dynamite," said Jim. But he says make no mistake, "talking to the voters when they come in is probably the highlight."

These election officers like it a little laid back.

"I think if you've got an awful lot of people rolling through here, you don't have time to talk to them."

This is Jim and Nancy Davenport's fourth year working at the polls, but it's the money that keeps them coming back.

"We're so well paid!" Jim joked, "This is a bootcamp."