Our polling place opened with ten times the amount of people it usually opens to!
Do you know how one can volunteer to staff the tables where they check voter IDs? I think it might be time to replace the one mostly blind, mostly deaf guy that handles half of the line.
You can certainly get in the back, and if the people around you are kind, you can leave to go to the bathroom or whatever and come back. But so many people see long lines and leave.
Those positions are called Judge of Elections, Majority Inspector, Minority Inspector, Machine Inspector, and Clerk. Most or all of them are elected to 4 year terms and are up for election in 2009. (I was Judge of Elections after I wrote myself in in 2005.) you should run! More info at seventy.org .
And yes, after the polls close in the evening, you can vote if you've been in line since they were open, but if you walk away, even briefly, you lose your chance.
Ours opened at 7, so we were there at 6:30 and were maybe like 10th in line (me, my brother, and my parents all voted in Barrington). There were plenty of stalls, but only 2 sets of people giving out ballots and stuff, and they were old people who were moving rather slowly...
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Do you know how one can volunteer to staff the tables where they check voter IDs? I think it might be time to replace the one mostly blind, mostly deaf guy that handles half of the line.
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I don't feel that it's fair to run in my neighborhood, because I'll probably be moving within a year. After we move I'll run for sure.
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