“I’d never run for president. I’ve thought about it, and the only reason I’m not is that I’m scared no woman would come forward and say she’d had sex with me.” Garry Shandling
November 9, 2022, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
I wanted to be a Patriot. I wanted to do my part. “I’ll be a poll worker,” I said happily.
That was until I went to Poll Worker training and decided it would be a bad idea to impose my technological “skills” on the electorate of an entire state.
As I listened to the description of a poll worker’s duties, I realized that the most important, but neglected part of the electoral process took place at the polls, and the most important people were the poll workers.
Training was only two hours in length, with the caveat that there probably wouldn’t be any seasoned poll workers on which a confused newbie could rely.
To say it would be nice to have Albert Einstein along to help would probably be an overstatement, but still, it couldn’t have hurt.
It wasn’t so much that there was a 15-hour day, with one-hour lunch break, although that was interesting. It was the complexity that voting machines presented to a new worker.
Who knew the poll workers had to set up the technology?
I figured I could handle hanging up the curtain on the machine, but there were lots of things to be done at 5:15 for a 6 o’clock poll opening.
There were seals on the machines to be broken, and buttons and seals not to be touched.
There were numerous bags with keys, and security codes, and extra ballot holders to replace the ones on the machines when they were full. There were binders full of important documents, signs to hang. And instead of a sign-in book, tablets and printers had to be set up.
Oh, yeah, and a router was to be “put near a window.” That was it. Those were the instructions.
I respect routers, and I know I have them in my house, but my exposure to them is scant. And I think our paths really shouldn’t cross.
It seemed paper ballots would be a heck of a lot easier, but we’re told voting machines are faster, goofproof.
But even Joe knows they’re not. And is happy that they're not.
“We know that more and more ballots are cast in early voting or by mail in America. We know that many states don’t start counting those ballots until after the polls close on November 8,” Joe said.
“That means in some cases, we won’t know the winner of the election for a few days…It takes time to count all legitimate ballots in a legal and orderly manner.”
Wasn’t technology supposed to speed things up? To be more efficient?
After all the machines are programmed, and yet at times they seem to do whatever they want, and, at others, not what they’re supposed to.
Yesterday 60 of the counties 233 voting locations in Maricopa county failed in Arizona.
Problems arose in California, machines auto-selecting candidate choices.
There were printing issues in Nevada.
And because of early voting, voters re-elected a Democratic representative, Tony DeLuca, who died last month.
But maybe this is part of the process. Maybe it’s the only way people like John Fetterman and AOC can get elected.
But what can we expect? Nothing’s changed.
Every state continues to use Dominion voting machines, including the most critical states in this year’s mid-terms, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.
Maybe Dominion has always been the most important part of "the process."
It’s unfortunate that non-performers like Hochul, Whitmer and Bowser were re-elected.
But, the silver-lining news that came out of this election is that Beto spent $170 million to lose three elections.
Charlie Crist lost as a Republican, Democrat and Independent.
And Nancy Pelosi will now be able to spend more time with Paul.
Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots.