Apparently they are pretty desperate for poll workers, so I talked to my supervisor at work, and he said if he can’t find a sub, he’ll redistribute my kids on election day, so I may be working. Volunteered last week; have not heard back.
Well, I did it, I worked as a clerk at the polls for 10 days. Mostly pretty boring. Lots of red hats and Drump shirts and masks. Couple of loud arguments when people had no I.D. to match their address on file and were issued a provisional.
We had observers from each party each day, who seemed to mostly observe their phones.
Now I am afraid I will be subpoenaed here in the AZ over “Sharpie-Gate.” The weird thing is, that the pens we gave people to use, are NOT what we think of when we think Sharpie. They were not those fat markers things. And these pens were specifically recommended by the tabulator manufacturer.
Nice.
In my Wisconsin polling place, I was assigned to the four-person team processing mail-in ballots. We were super-careful and meticulous, but efficient, so we were done only an hour and a half after polls closed at 8 PM (we couldn’t start until 7 AM that morning, by law, but the three-hour process of NUMBERING most write-in ballots had been done the previous Saturday.)
We ended up with only a one-ballot discrepancy among the various cross-checks. (Typically there are more like ten.) We easily resolved it — City Hall had included a drop-box ballot from the wrong ward.
No in-person-voting or same-day-registration incidents, and the registered observers behaved fine and were apparently happy with what they saw.
Our county (like our state) is purple, leaning slightly Democrat. Hillary barely won our county, but Biden won it a bit more decisively.
We were proud that WI overall was able to report most results — enough to be “declared” by media outlets, despite only a 20,000-vote difference — only seven hours after polls closed, very early Wednesday morning. Michigan took longer — ha! (Good-natured rivalry).
One job I had was to check the mail-in voters list against the “ineligible voters” list (mainly ex-felons), because someone might have been added to, or removed from, the list that very day.
And, of course, the poll workers were trained by the Deep State to spot Trump voters and had them the illegal Sharpies while saving the ‘good’ pens for the Biden voters.
I’m glad you could serve. I never heard anything back after those emails we talked about in September. I even sent an email on October 9th asking what’s up? and heard only crickets.
I am disappointed.
Sorry it didn’t work out for you. All in all, kind of boring, but I finished 5 books in the 11 (10?) days. The last day, election day was LONG, and then we had to tear down the computers and printers and stands for the voters. That was a 17 hour day. I’ll be on the list now of first called when they need people but IDK if I would do it again.