Election Judge Follow-up
Sep. 12th, 2006 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidschrothI have to believe that our precinct must have been setting some kind of record for customer service. One of the judges spent a lot of time giving voters her reading glasses so they could see to vote. And the Chief Judge took the time to give two very, very tired voters (they had walked to the polling place) a ride home.
And as far as the special, first used this year, machines whose name I can't remember - based on our results, election bodies would be better advised to spend their money on an assortment of reading glasses and translators. We steered several obvious candidates to the machine, and they pretty much all preferred to give up on the machine and get a friend or election judge to help them.
We may also have set a record for the highest percentage of spoiled ballots. It didn't seem to matter how we told voters to vote only for candidates in one party, we kept getting voters attempting to vote across party lines. Some of them many times.
And as far as the special, first used this year, machines whose name I can't remember - based on our results, election bodies would be better advised to spend their money on an assortment of reading glasses and translators. We steered several obvious candidates to the machine, and they pretty much all preferred to give up on the machine and get a friend or election judge to help them.
We may also have set a record for the highest percentage of spoiled ballots. It didn't seem to matter how we told voters to vote only for candidates in one party, we kept getting voters attempting to vote across party lines. Some of them many times.
