election

[kmusser]

Not much to say on the election that hasn't been said elsewhere. I've been enjoying a day where I get to read mostly good news for a change.

I was one of the election judges for Brunswick again. Things ran very smoothly for us, no real problems with the machines - one quit on us, but we had enough that we didn't need it. We had high turn out, which was nice to see. No incidents to report.

Comments

[selki.livejournal.com]

Thank you for being an election judge!

Do you know, if one signs up for election working, how variable is the time commitment? Training + ... primary only? Primary and election? Election only?

Another gamer and election judge's write-up: http://heptadecagram.livejournal.com/139068.html

[kmusser]

At least in Frederick if you sign up they expect you to work both the primary and general election (and any special election should one come up) and there is a mandatory training before each one. I get the impression though that Frederick does more training than most jurisdictions do. Also you can sign up and quit at any time, so if you only wanted to do one election you could, just quit immediately afterwords.

[patches023.livejournal.com]

I think in the entire state of MD if you sign up you are expected to take at least one training (in PG it was only one training session not two sessions) and both the primary, general elections and any special elections. However, we were down four people for the primary because our judges had prior commitments!!! Fortunately, we were ok for the primary.

[kmusser]

Still varies quite a bit on how much training you get - I hear folks from elsewhere talking about 30-45 minute sessions, ours were 3-4 hours.

[tirani.livejournal.com]

Turn out in our precinct was 3 times what it normally was. We had one machine hickup, but a restart and check over by our tech had it back in business. Which is good, because when we closed at 8, we had 150+ people still in line.