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w8liftinglady

(23,278 posts)
Mon May 28, 2012, 10:51 PM May 2012

Sooooo... we vote in Texas tomorrow!

I am Democratic election judge in the red Zone,and met with my R judge tonight to set the poll up.

It was OK.She and her spouse ,me and my kid, and my alternate and her spouse set the booths up,mutually hand wrung,and agreed that we all wanted to "look good"...hence no crap ballots/election signs,et al.

We'll probably have all of 200 show up...199 R's and one D in this district.

It'll be a long day.........wish me luck(and that I keep my mouth appropriately shut)

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Sooooo... we vote in Texas tomorrow! (Original Post) w8liftinglady May 2012 OP
Thanks for doing it... freshwest May 2012 #1
I'll also be surrounded by reds all day tomorrow, working at poll. northoftheborder May 2012 #2
I am a Precinct Chair hence Election Judge in Tarrant County MagickMuffin May 2012 #3
You are a 'sheep in the lions den' or alittlelark May 2012 #4
I will also be an election judge tomorrow Gothmog May 2012 #5
Thanks for your work. JDPriestly May 2012 #6

northoftheborder

(7,572 posts)
2. I'll also be surrounded by reds all day tomorrow, working at poll.
Mon May 28, 2012, 11:07 PM
May 2012

Even fewer than usual D's will be voting in primary here, because there is a hot sheriff's race on the Repub. ticket. (No Dem local offices at all to vote for, so a lot of D's will vote for one of the sheriff choices on R. ticket.) I think some of them voted for Michelle Bachman for a laugh!

MagickMuffin

(15,936 posts)
3. I am a Precinct Chair hence Election Judge in Tarrant County
Mon May 28, 2012, 11:11 PM
May 2012

I'm excited and anxious at the same time. My hubby agreed to be my Alternate Judge and recruited a lady I met back in 08.

I have worked several elections with my counterparts and they usually are helpful if and when I need it. This is only my second time to be the Election Judge, I'm usually only the Alternate Judge, hence my nervousness.

It should be an interesting day considering voter turnout could be very slow. This year's elections are soooooo f'upd because of the other side wrecking havoc with our elections. Hopefully their turnout will be even slower because they already have a nominee and they didn't get to have a say in it.

If you haven't seen a sample ballot you should check it out. ALL the candidates for their team is on the ballot with the exception of Perry Also check out their resolutions, hooboy they are very telling.


GOOD LUCK



alittlelark

(18,890 posts)
4. You are a 'sheep in the lions den' or
Tue May 29, 2012, 12:18 AM
May 2012

'doing the work of angels' .... or whatever snippet works...

Just saying THANK YOU!!!!!


From the bottom of my heart - Thank You!!!!

Gothmog

(145,148 posts)
5. I will also be an election judge tomorrow
Tue May 29, 2012, 12:18 AM
May 2012

We are doing split primaries. My counterpart and I set put the legs on the voting machines Friday night and will be doing the rest of the set up tomorrow. We have five machines allocated to the Democrats and the Republicans have 8 machines.

This will be the first time that I served as an election judge. I am usually running our voter protection operations.

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