Catherine Ellsberg

‘I think we’re going to get slammed at the polling places’: Contra Costa County election workers gear up for big day.

Kristin Connelly doesn’t have a minute to spare. Six days before the election — or “E-6” — Connelly power-walked past volunteers and staff members in the hallways of the Contra Costa Elections Office in Martinez, shouting encouragement while hustling to the next stop. Later, she stood outside the building, thanking approaching voters as they slipped their ballots into one of the county’s 43 drop boxes. If this election is anything like the others Connelly has run during her four-year tenure…