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Can't decide if I want to be an Election Officer again...

Posted by ceregon Oct 20 '08, 12:16

I usually like volunteering, but dealing with people that can't follow directions drives me crazy (see that voting booklet you are holding? it tells you what district you are in and where you go to vote? go there. you can't vote here. etc.)

During the primary, it was super busy because the nominees hadn't been decided. During the local elections it was totally dead. A lot of people are now voting by mail, so supposedly the number of people going to the polls will be smaller. Who knows how hectic it'll be on Nov 4.

Pros: Help out, get paid like $5/hr for my trouble, see democracy in action

Con: Costs me a vacation day, other volunteers are all senior citizens, so if anything goes wrong with tech stuff, I'll have to do it, hiding my belief that there should be an intelligence test for voting (yes, pick the X for the candidate you want, not the candidate you don't want).

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who will write the review? Bill Murray? :) -- nm - peglegpete Oct 20, 12:18
free juice and cookies? -- nm - Epiphany Oct 20, 12:17
Do you have the work the full open-to-close shift? -- nm - Mr. Havens Oct 20, 12:16 1
- Yes. 3.5 hrs of training on a weekend before, 2 hours of set up, then 6am to 9pm on election day -- nm - ceregon Oct 20, 12:20

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