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someone sent this to me -- makes for interesting reading:
here are my thoughts on what I experienced at pollworker training today
-average age of trainees was 70 -an petite white-haired elderly man looked like he was going to cry when the speaker began talking about the inkavoteplus. The speaker paused for a second and said "Is anything wrong" and the man said he was confused and the speaker said "we don't have time, we have to keep moving along" -the woman next to me said that she was going to have a root canal in Tijuana next week because she couldn't afford to have the work done here. I asked her how she found someone down there and she said he used to be based in LA. She's an election inspector. hope she doesn't have to be in Tijuana on election day - the first training film featured a man driving a car while discussing procedures at the polling place. I was afraid he was going to have an accident. The music in the film was at peak volume so that you could barely here the what the man was saying. It was some generic thing that sounded like bumpers from the WAVE. I think they try to hypnotize people at the training. I think it's the same music they use when they put you on hold when you call the RR/CC number. I listen for subliminal messages next time. - there seemed to be unusual emphasis on having everyone repeat what time the polls open and what time they close. It was almost like a gregorian chant with antiphonal responses:
Trainer: What time do the polls open? attendees: 7 am
Trainer: and what time do the polls close? attendees: 8pm
They must have had the audience repeat this routine 20 times. Meanwhile, most people left without any idea of how to run the inkavoteplus -the training film for the inkavoteplus shows an old lady and a young lady setting up the inkavote plus. They look like they're struggling even though I think the old lady looks like she might be a retired gym teacher. I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few slipped discs from this job. And by the way, these things go home with the inspectors for days (they never said how many exactly). =they said there would be 2 ballot readers (inkavotepluses) at locations with 3 precincts. -they said the inkavote plus won't count the ballots but they're having people run a zero tape on the machine at beginning of day and having voters deposit ballot throught the scanner. I implore everyone to not run their ballot through the scanner, but rather to put it directly into the slot in the black box under the inkavoteplus garbage on top. -they said provisional ballots are not to be deposited into inkavoteplus. Seems like it shouldn't matter if the thing isn't counting votes. Why shouldn't a provisional voter be entitled to have the thing tell them if they under or overvoted. made me suspect they're counting votes with those blasted things. -the trainer nonchalantly mentioned 3 types of workers at the polls: regular citizens, employees from rr/cc offices, and corporate pollworkers.
CORPORATE POLLWORKERS??? what the hell's zat??? are they from Halliburton? what corporations??? I don't think this isa very good idea -the other antiphonal chant was that "voting never stops" so if you have a technical problem, you just deposit the ballots in the unscanned slot in the blackbox. -interestingly enough, with all their faith in these computers for voting, the powerpt presentation on their laptop froze up at least 3 times during the training session
I've never been a pollworker before. I can see from what goes on at the precinct that it would be so easy to take those ballots and just count them on the spot. All this machinery coming between me and my vote is exasperating. And if you have a technical problem, the number you call isn't even a county number.
They stressed that no matter what, all work must cease at polling place by 9:30pm and all the materials must be taken to the collection center at this time.
It's called the inkavote "enhancement" but to me, it's just another way for someone to gladhandle your votes and mine so that they can have total control over the results if they so desire.
Sincerely,
(name removed)
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