Tag: funny names

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Yes, there are some funny ha-ha things about the recent election.  I worked for my County doing signature-verification from a week before the election to three days after.  My state has had all-mail balloting for at least 10 years.  My state votes so heavily Democrat, they never need to cheat on a large scale. The […]

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Dispatch from the Election Worker: Day One of Real Work

 

At 8:30 a.m., I started my temporary, seasonal, election worker job, doing Signature Verification for my County, which has all-mail voting (the state has been all-mail for many years now). [On the news today is a story stating that our state received a perfect score on its handling of all-mail voting]. I think I made about half a dozen errors, but the supervisors were able to extricate me without much problem. By the end of the day, I checked in the neighborhood of 3,000 ballot signatures.

There were 16 of us at work today, which would account for about 48,000 total ballot signatures verified. Some, but not many, were challenged for various reasons. The most common reason was “signatures do not match.” I had a few. I saw more than one “symbol” signatures, each of which had its required two witness signatures (the most common reason for this is a voter disabled, or otherwise unable to sign their name).

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As someone who spends countless hours staring at nineteenth-century property maps and combing through old county histories, I encounter a lot of names. Hundreds upon hundreds of names — family names, given names, middle names, and nicknames. The variety, even in a place as insular and “unworldly” as pre-World War I Ohio, is almost infinite. […]

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