Six-decade Douglas County poll worker George Reed shows his family members his new admiralship in the Nebraska Navy from Gov. Jim Pillen for having worked elections in the state for 65 years. Aug. 27, 2025. (Aaron Sanderford/Nebraska Examiner)

OMAHA — Nebraska poll worker George Reed has worked the state’s elections so long that he was manning the polls in 1964 when a Democrat last won all of the state’s Electoral College votes.

That 1964 victory by Lyndon Johnson was Reed’s second presidential election as a Douglas County poll worker, a 65-year record state and local election officials celebrated on Wednesday in Omaha.

Douglas County Election Commissioner Brian Kruse said Reed, 86, had worked more than 80 consecutive elections and had “never missed an election,” including during the CO

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