Poll worker fired over touch-screen voting comment

[nosillies]

Found this in my local paper this morning. GOOD FOR HER! She sounds awesome. I'd like to think of a way to show her my appreciation and support. She deserves her own flood of roses.

Poll worker fired over touch-screen voting comment

By RAY WEISS
Staff Writer

A New Smyrna Beach voting equipment inspector picked the wrong place to express her views about controversial new touch-screen voting machines being used for the first time in Volusia County.

Volusia County Supervisor of Elections Ann McFall has fired 76-year-old Drusilla Synal, a poll worker for more than a decade, for opposing the use of the touch-screen machines as she cast her ballot during an early voting session Aug. 23 at the city's library.

Full article:
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Local/newEAST01POL082906.htm

[MADem]

1. Send a letter to the editor stating your support for her

Do it to YOUR local paper, her local paper, and a national outlet or two. Individualized letters, not astroturf. Encourage others to do the same. Basically, this woman is being CENSORED for holding an opinion shared by at least half the nation. Sieg fuckin' heil.

Hand write it, clearly, and mail it by US mail. A few of them might get printed!

[nosillies]

4. Got mine off to the local paper this morning!

[LisaM]

2. The polling place is EXACTLY the place to make the point

Nobody at Winn Dixie is going to care.

I would call the Volusia County Elections Office, and flat out ask what they mean by saying that criticizing the machines is a partisan statement. By that logic, if someone came in and praised the machines, that would likewise be a partisan statement and shouldn't be permitted. That is a de facto admission that the machines themselves are partisan.

[nosillies]

5. That's the exact same thought I had.

By calling an opinion on the machines political, you are admitting that the machines may "favor" a political group.


edit: not very well said, but I hope I made my point

[drm604]

10. Exactly.

Why is asking for secure auditable elections a partisan statement? Which party is against such things?

[RaleighNCDUer]

15. If criticising the machines is a partisan statement, that would mean

by implication that installing the machines in the first place is a partisan action. If the machines are non-partisan, how could criticism of them be partisan?

Which is worse?

[alfredo]

3. How can her opinion on a piece of equipment be seen

as political?

[iamjoy]

6. Outrageous

I heard this on NPR this morning and couldn't believe it

[nosillies]

8. COOL!!!!!

I thought this would just remain a local thing.

[rumpel]

7. "I wasn't there as a poll worker. I just went in to vote."

Wow - thanks for the post.

[drm604]

9. Letters to the editor, and roses to Drusilla.

Include a card with the flowers saying something like "Thank you for speaking the truth" or "Thank you for standing up for American voters" or something along those lines. Use your own words.

[Kurovski]

11. I guess her mistake was in not making the comment in a

"free speech zone".

Like, say, somewhere OUTSIDE of the United States of America.

[EFerrari]

12. K&R

[Not Me]

13. I voted via (paper) absentee ballot for the primary,

and will do so in November as well. And I dropped my ballot off in the lock box at the early voting location in the library.
I WILL NOT use a touch screen machine until they provide a way to verify recount.

[stepnw1f]

14. Can She Sue Ann McFall for This?

I mean... does she have a case?

[B Calm]

16. I'm not a lawyer, but it looks like a good case of wrongful termination

to me!

[w4rma]

17. Drusilla Synal is my heroine. (nt)