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I volunteered to work the polls. I finally got an email, last week, that said I wasn’t needed as a poll worker, but could help count ballots.
Unfortunately there were no trainings offered, so I couldn’t assist.
Seems on purpose chaos.
I am embarrassed by my county and my state.
Ekosj,
Actually, that is pretty scary stuff. It’s not proof of anything but it leaves a huge question mark. There could be massive fraud with a system like that. Maybe you should email what you have to Tom Fitton at https://www.judicialwatch.org/. They are in all 50 states right now with lawyers deployed.
Regards,
Jim
Working my signature verification. Long day.
Is this mostly using computer programs to okay signatures, or verifying questionable computer-okayed signatures, or doing it all with human eyes?
All with human eyes. Any ballot envelopes rejected get a second look. Unsigned ballots, and people in the same household signing each other’s ballots are common as are people printing their name when their signature was in cursive.
Voted. Not much different than any other Election Day. Sent my brother a text to see how they were doing. He said they weren’t too busy, but a lot of people had voted early in their county in Southside Virginia.
I have been up since 3:30 a.m. I am so looking forward to the election being over.
That should put him over the top.
Just got back from the polls. Everything was fairly normal except for the fact that we were given disposable styluses to use on the touchscreens. The door that hides the paper print out of your vote was removed so you didn’t have to physically touch the machine at all. The sign-in book has been digitized so it was all done on an iPad.
I voted early, going to a polling station because I had overvoted a judge or two on the second page of my long ballot. The election workers had their act together and quickly walked me through verifying my voting status, spoiling the old ballot with a huge magic marker so it could not be fed into a vote tabulation machine, and issuing me a new one to fill out in one of those stand up booths. After making sure each candidate, each office was properly marked, I dropped the new ballot in a box on the way out.
The official election website for the county yields this message:
Good to go.
Election day in northern NJ was boring, because not being handicapped I am not allowed to vote in person., but only using the absentee ballots, you know, the ones we didn’t request, but had to sign saying we did, if we wanted to vote. Choices for the absentee ballot: 1) Mail it using the post office where it stands a decent chance of being round filed since it comes from Sussex County (Republican County, Dems have no-one on board of chosen freeholders (County supervisors anywhere else)) 2> Deposit it in one of the “Secure” vote boxes set up in parking lots around the county, with no one watching or around. 3) Take the ballot to the county registrar of voters (Since in this county this person is a Republican this is likely the safest, its just a 15 mile drive away. 4) Go to one of the few voting locations open (In Republican areas, they closed 3 of 5 normal locations, so instead of 1/2 mile, its a 4 mile drive and hand to a poll worker. You can go to the poll to hand in your absentee ballot, but you can’t vote in person!? One has also noticed that they opened additional poll locations in heavily Democratic areas, even though one has to be handicapped to actual vote using one of the normal machines. Anyway, we voted a week ago, we hope! But I am confident that Philadelphic in PA will have it usual collection of precincts where 150% of the registered voters cast ballots, of course all get counted, and the ratio of Dem to R votes is around 10,000 to 1, if that many. (A lot more dead people vote, but they won’t let anyone check the decesade roles till long after the count is in. If one gets the impression I am a cynic with respect to hoping for an honest election, well I am.
No line here, took about 3 minutes. About half the registered voters in my precinct voted ahead of time.
We voted early in Dallas. There was no line. I hope that Texas is red by a huge margin.
How can you still be undecided? The choice is obvious:
My Dem Congressman Seth Moulton has won re-election, as well as the loathsome Ed Markey.
But Massachusetts voters seem to be showing some common sense on the ballot initiatives by rejecting ranked choice voting, and supporting an initiative for “right to repair” that forces dealerships to share data about your car with your neighborhood mechanic.