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LetMyPeopleVote

(155,578 posts)
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 08:23 PM Nov 2022

Got my voter protection assignment-I will be poll watcher at central counting office

This is where all of the ballots are in effect counted. I have to be there before 7 PM and cannot leave and come back in like a normal poll watcher. The first early vote and vote by mail ballots will be tabulated by 7:30 or so and then we wait for voting centers to bring the disks with results. I was asked not to leave before midnight or when the ballots are tabulated.

I have not done this before. The good news is that i can safely ignore Kornacki all night.

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Got my voter protection assignment-I will be poll watcher at central counting office (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2022 OP
Bless you for your service. fierywoman Nov 2022 #1
Ty for serving! SheltieLover Nov 2022 #2
I'm taking the last shift at my election office as an observer too! jmbar2 Nov 2022 #3
Thank you for volunteering LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2022 #8
Doing it for stress relief jmbar2 Nov 2022 #9
Thank you! phoenix75 Nov 2022 #4
I was going to be a boiler room captain but broke my glasses LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2022 #5
What's a boiler room? Sucha NastyWoman Nov 2022 #12
Don't forget your cleaning supplies for the disks: TexasTowelie Nov 2022 #6
Good luck! MLAA Nov 2022 #7
Thank you! ananda Nov 2022 #10
That's great! Sucha NastyWoman Nov 2022 #11
It was a boring night LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2022 #13

jmbar2

(6,239 posts)
3. I'm taking the last shift at my election office as an observer too!
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 08:27 PM
Nov 2022

Will miss Kornacki for part of the nite.

Thanks for volunteering!!!!

jmbar2

(6,239 posts)
9. Doing it for stress relief
Tue Nov 8, 2022, 08:50 AM
Nov 2022

I can't just sit home and watch these returns without trying to do SOMEThing...

Let us know how it goes on your side.

LetMyPeopleVote

(155,578 posts)
5. I was going to be a boiler room captain but broke my glasses
Mon Nov 7, 2022, 08:34 PM
Nov 2022

I have been volunteering for voter protection since 2004 and have been running voter protection boiler rooms for many elections cycles.

I broke my glasses last week and I am using a pair that may be six or so years old. I have been blowing up documents on my computer but I am not comfortable doing this with the LBJ system. This will not require much reading.

My eyes need such corrections that it will take a while to get the new lenses.

Sucha NastyWoman

(2,929 posts)
11. That's great!
Tue Nov 8, 2022, 12:40 PM
Nov 2022

I know you will do a great job for us. That is a really critical job.

Will be poll watching at an election site from 1-7. Pm.

LetMyPeopleVote

(155,578 posts)
13. It was a boring night
Wed Nov 9, 2022, 06:26 PM
Nov 2022

I was at the central counting office for my county where the ballots are counted. The democratic appointed judge for ballot counting could not make it and there had been an attempt by the GOP to disrupt the ballot board. The asshole GOP party county chair tried to tell the ballot board that they could not start processing mail in ballot until election day because that is how TFG wanted done. The head election administrator showed him the law on how counting vote by mail ballots are to be counted and the idiot GOP chair claimed that the election code was written by Democrats (the Democratic party in Texas has not been in control of the Texas govt. since 1994).

There is a procedure for checking in machines that come in. They read the vote counts at one of four central locations and transmit this to the county. The scanner that counts the votes is then put into box and sealed. The election judges come to the county central office and turn in the sealed box and the machine that checks in voters is read to get a count of the number of voters who checked in.

I know the people in the election office and the lady who swore us in asked me about my children who have been election judges/clerks in the past. The process was going smoothly, and I was told that they did not expect to be finished unto 2 AM. I ended up leaving at 11 PM.

Boring is good.

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