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Your Country and Your Party Need You to be a Poll Worker or Poll Watcher
If you are physically able to do so, I am asking you to serve your country and party on Primary and General Election Days. You can make a huge difference. You can see for yourself how the system works. I think that you will be relieved to see the lack of voter fraud, but I accept the possibility that you will conclude that there is voter fraud, and if so, I urge you to protect our sacred right to vote.
So how can you make a difference? Easy. If you are physically able, be a poll worker. That is a very, very long day. The polls open at 6 a.m. in Arizona but beforehand, poll workers must put up signs as to the 75- and 150-foot boundaries for people to stop politicking. After the polls close at 7 p.m., and the last person who was in line has voted, there are a series of tasks to do, read the meters as to the votes, to sign a number of reports, and to seal the ballots until they are picked up by law enforcement. It is a grind. And it is essential to be done well.
If you can’t do the entire grind, be a poll watcher. See for yourself how the system works.
I once served not only as a poll watcher at a specific precinct, but as the Republican Party’s roving Party Inspector which gave me the right to enter any polling place and observe. I spent all Election Day visiting precincts on the Navajo Reservation, putting hundreds of miles on my car. (30 percent of Coconino County is Native.) I have several observations.
First, I didn’t see any obvious fraud, but I wasn’t in precincts long enough to really see any fraud.
Second, there was a benefit to have a Republican Inspector show up. I was pleasant and courteous. I did hear that I was the first Republican Inspector to show up within memory. The is a value in the beat cop walking around and showing the flag. There was a smidgen of resentment by a few poll workers, but most people were friendly and pleasant, and several were proud to show me that they were running a clean and fair election.
Third, in every precinct, both parties have the right to have a poll watcher. However on the far-flung Navajo reservation, there were few Republican poll watchers.
Fourth, there has not been a Republican County Recorder in Coconino County for decades, if ever. However, the County Elections Supervisor told me that she really was really happy to have Republican poll watchers and asked me if I could help her recruit Republican Poll Watchers. I found her to be believable and authentic.
So there are three jobs that need to be filled. First, you could be hired as an election worker. Do the job. You will be paid only a smidgen more than minimum wage, but you are needed and needed now. Second, you can be a volunteer poll watcher for the Republican Party. If I had it all my way, every single precinct would have at least one Republican poll watcher. Third, seek to be appointed as a roving party inspector.
Please don’t just complain about voter fraud, do something about it! Suit up and show up, as a paid poll worker, an unpaid poll watcher, or as a roving Party Inspector. Your party needs you. More importantly your country needs you.
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I just got my confirming email this afternoon. It includes the following:
We are required to balance our polling staff with equal representation (Democrats, Republicans, Independent, Other, Etc.) as best as possible. Currently, we really need Republican representation in the Sedona and Fredonia areas.
I am delighted to serve. “Trust but verify.”
Yes. In fact I’m helping plan and perform our poll-watcher training. Fair question.
Great! Thank you for your service. And being a poll-watcher is a fully volunteer position.
Yes. I wrote about last year’s experience a couple of times. You can stop explaining it to me.
Do you have a link to it?
Yep. You’re gonna kick yourself:
Yep, not only did I read it, but I commented favorably on it!
Try working for the other side sometime. Work in their local politics. Go to their local events and parties. Especially their election parties. Get to be trusted so you see how they do stuff in the background. It is interesting to see the corruption.