Reply #4: Personal experience: they need poll workers [View All]

[havocmom]

They are required by law to hold a class to teach poll workers. A class, not a series of classes, A CLASS- ONE. If they have people willing to work the polls on election day, but they can't make the class, it gets signed off as having been attended anyway. They need warm bodies.

And going to the class in no guarantee people listen, learn, do it right.

I had to really work hard at not physically attacking a couple of people who couldn't leave their partisan and very hateful remarks unsaid as we counted votes. I did manage to calmly comment that if a registered DEM like myself were to say those things about GOP candidates and the people who voted for them, I would be accused of all sorts of things, not the least of which being partisan at a function where we should ALL come together, despite our differences, and be Americans first and foremost.

All but one of the smart asses settled down. The one who kept up the hate talk was the supervisor.

Want polling places to work better and vote counting to be more trustworthy? Sign up to work the elections. We need more new blood in there to watch the entrenched groups that sorta control things. Think globally- ACT LOCALLY and start with where you vote!