Democrats Might Have Won the Last Big Election of 2013 With a Newly Discovered Voting Machine

[Ash_F]

83. No, much slower pace than that

Each station is like an island of a handful of workers. They don't swarm to a central location to count.

The process and equipment has many steps and checks to prevent fraud. Even the collusion of everyone at the station would make covering the tracks of fraud difficult. The problem is this makes it somewhat complicated such that a few hours of training is really not appropriate, neither is paying the workers next to nothing. Most of the poll workers are clerks from the county government picking up extra shifts, who also get payed inappropriately low wages at their main jobs (8-12 per hour).

We had to refer to our manuals during the polls, repeatedly, to recall what to do. One of the equipment manuals had such hilariously poor grammar that it was hard to understand. I believe it was for the electronic voting machine that was for disabled voters.

Also, I was the only one at that particular station who was strong enough to break the seal on some of the equipment and lift the heavier stuff. However the fact that I was assigned there was not due to this consideration, just random luck. So they would have had to call for help otherwise, which was poor planning.

So I can definitely see how poor management and training can lead to stories like the one in the OP.

All this confusion may have to do with so much of the equipment being relatively new. Also, different states/counties would have different processes, as there is no unified voting system in America. This was Texas.