2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you think the election should be delayed? [View all]RichGirl
(4,119 posts)Work as an election officer for at least one election. You get paid pretty well for election day and they even pay you to take classes.
Everybody needs to see how it all works. How dedicated the registrars office is to make sure (primary number #1 objective) THAT ANYONE WHO IS QUALIFIED TO VOTE WILL BE ABLE TO VOTE.
For example, in EVERY PRECINCT there is always a threat that there might be a power failure. So, every election they come equipped with paper ballots for as many people who are in the poll book. One person is assigned to take the voting machine (which is basically like a laptop) outside if a handicap or older person can't come inside. I once took machine out to a guy, so old and senile he was looking for Nixon on the machine....serious.
We have EARLY VOTING. My guess, if the situation is so bad that some can't vote on election day...they'll have LATE VOTING.
Oh...they always have a box of paper hospital gowns. I'll let you guess what those are for.