Election day and your place of employment, what are you doing?

[charlie and algernon]

Poll question: Election day and your place of employment, what are you doing?

since I work in a state building, I have off Tuesday and am thinking about taking the 3rd and 5th off too.

[elocs]

1. The assumption is that everybody is employed. n/t

[av8rdave]

2. I'll be flying...can't remember where...I'm early voting on Tuesday

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. You need an "other" - I've been laid off, so can volunteer all day!

[Lisa0825]

4. One day to work and party and one day to sleep in and recover!

:party: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party:

[MercutioATC]

5. Othe: Voting before work.

I work 3pm-11pm on election day, so I'll vote before and celebrate after.

[charlie and algernon]

9. just put in "voting beforehand" and "other"

[Diamonique]

6. I'm voting before I go to work.

I get off at 5 p.m. and have volunteered to drive people to the polls in the evening.

I'm off on the 5th, thank goodness.

[femmocrat]

7. Since I work in the same building as our polling place,

I'll probably vote first thing in the morning. That will give me a big grin on my face all day! :)

[rainbow4321]

8. Requested off a month ago (and Nov 5th, also, to celebrate)

Signed up to be a poll greeter..went to a meeting today to learn what to do and not do. The greeters are OUTside the 100ft mark so anything is game (for the most part)..you can dress/be partisan/hand stuff out/direct voters to the right place, etc.. Outside the 100 feet away mark is outside of the jurisdiction of the election judge.

[charlie and algernon]

13. poll greeting is fun

get to meet lots of interesting people and to shoot the shit with the opponent poll greeters, lol. Most people won't take the lit, so you just end up chatting with them and showing them where to go.

[rainbow4321]

18. Yeah we talked about the lit stuff..people already decided by then

No interest in handouts. They gave us a hotline number to call if problems break out while people are waiting (lines not moving, anyone being unrightly harrassed/rights violated. Biggest thing to remember: don't be intimidated. Apparently one year, some right winger called the cops on a Dem greeter for being on "church property"..cop came, HE knew the rules and told the Dem "stay put, you are not doing anything wrong"

[phusion]

Voting early but probably taking the 5th off...

to celebrate :)

[SharonRB]

10. I'm planning to take the 3rd, 4th and 5th off.

[Beregond2]

11. My hours have been cut back somuch, I doubt I will be scheduled to work that day anyway.

[Motown_Johnny]

12. I need to be at work at 8:00am so I will get to my polling location at about 7:10 - 7:15. much

faster than waiting in line at six at night.. fuck that

[H2O Man]

14. Other.

Retired.

[PuppyBismark]

15. I will be an election official at a local voting location.

Everyone will get their chance to vote at this location.

[Tribetime]

16. I'm Dan the licensed plumber in Ohio and I'll hopefully close around 2pm

[SmokingJacket]

17. I'll be at the polls from 5:30 am to 10 o'clock pm.

I'm a poll worker. I'll spend the morning signing people in to vote. Maybe I'll get a break for lunch, depending how busy it is. Then the huge rush of people coming after school and work. Maybe the Lions Club with bring around chicken and biscuits (which, let me tell you, is the most delicious food on the planet after a day of working the polls in a chilly gymnasium). At 9 we close up and count the votes and call them in. Then I'll drive home to my husband and kids and sit by the radio and the computer with a freaking huge glass of wine.

[Kceres]

19. Voting before work, taking off at 2:00 and throwing a neighborhood election night party.

Hubby and I are both taking the next day off.

[Betsy Ross]

20. Poll worker from 6am to 2pm

I just couldn't work the evening too. I want to watch the results.

[WatchWhatISay]

28. Poll worker also, but I'll be doing the 7-7 shift

Told them already though, this is the LAST time I'm doing a full day!

[cliffordu]

21. I took the next 20 years off......

[treestar]

22. I run this office, and it's closed!

I'll be doing something to help out.

[CitizenPatriot]

23. self employed

finish a long job on the 1, go back to volunteering until the 5th, on which date I plan to be drinking Obamitos all day:-)

[Left Is Write]

24. I don't have a regular set schedule and go in when necessary.

If I have a lot to do, I'll plan on taking care of it on Monday or Wednesday instead. My husband plans to take a vacation day.

I do have Girl Scouts that night, but I've already told my co-leader that I may be taking people to the polls.

[BlooInBloo]

25. I'll go vote at some point during the day, then go back to work.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

26. I work for the State so I'm taking the day off

Probably won't vote until the missus (who doesn't have the day off) gets home so that we can manage the kids while we (wait to) vote.

I think election day should be a national holiday. Deciding our leaders is perhaps one of our most important civic responsibilities and one that every eligible person should be able to do (and it should be made AS EASY as possible for everybody who can and does want to). Also, I think that we need to get rid of all those crazy laws that prohibit felons and ex-convicts (whom supposedly have repaid their "debt" to society) from voting.

[Quixote1818]

27. Already voted.nt

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

29. Parking has always been a problem at my polling place (it's at a middle school).

If I can't vote before work, I may try to come home during lunch to do so. If that doesn't work out, I'll definitely leave work at 5 and if I have to, walk there from my house (the school is across the main road from our neighborhood).

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

30. Parking has always been a problem at my polling place (it's at a middle school).

If I can't vote before work, I may try to come home during lunch to do so. If that doesn't work out, I'll definitely leave work at 5 and if I have to, walk there from my house (the school is across the main road from our neighborhood).

[randr]

31. Voting early

so I can work as a Polling Place Leader for half the day.

[SheilaT]

32. I have already voted and I will be working

that day.

[Occam Bandage]

33. Taking the day off, volunteering all day.

[1corona4u]

34. I work from home, so whatever I want.

:-)

[fizzgig]

35. tuesday is one of my regular days off

and i don't work until 3 on wednesdays, so i'm set

[texanwitch]

36. I am working at the polls on election day as a precinct judge.

We are working 7 to 7 but anyone in line still votes after I close the poles, don't know when we will get home that night.

[csziggy]

37. Semi-retired and my place will be the staging area for volunteers and campaign workers

On Election Day and the three days before. People will be leaving out of here to take voters to the polls, go door to door, calling, responding to problems at the polls, whatever the campaign wants them doing. This weekend we sent teams out to canvass our end of the county - overwhelming response for Obama!

[99th_Monkey]

38. I think Prez Election Day needs to be a national holiday. ~nt~

[kick-ass-bob]

39. Hell, my boss isn't even working.

She's going to be a poll worker. :P