Tell Us Your Election Day Worker Stories

[TexasThoughtCriminal]

I served as a judge in a largely repuke precinct, and in fact the home precinct of one of our most notorious rethuglicans in Congress. We had both primaries in one large room that was spacious enough for both elections. Final election day tallies: 549 Dem, 243 Rep. :D

The 'pubbies got so annoyed with all these people approaching their table wanting Dem ballots that they had to put up signs and ended up asking everyone at the start which primary they wanted. :evilgrin:

And with two ballot counters in the room, you really had to pay attention to which machine was beeping when there was a problem with a ballot. All morning long, the beeps were coming from the repub machine because some stupid voter couldn't mark their ballot properly. I was proud of our voters. But then in the afternoon, our counter beeped, and I thought, "There goes our perfect record." I went to check it out and found that some stupid 'pubbie was trying to put an R ballot in a Dem machine! This happened two more times. :rofl: In the end, we had no Dem ballot errors.:applause:

But this is the real kicker and shows how their base is crumbling. The election judge's husband came in and voted a Dem ballot. And later on, one of her clerks decided it was time for him to vote, and came to our table! The judge was pissed off and told him if he voted Dem, she would fire him on the spot and he would have to go home! She was dead serious. So he slunk off and returned to the devil's lair.:rofl::rofl:

All in all a very good but exhausting day. I thank the gods that there was no line at 7:00. Guess this precinct got the message to get your vote out of the way early.

[Vincardog]

1. I worked one of the Democratic primary Locations in Denton county (Long thought to be RED)

All day long I kept having to tell the folks in line that it was the Democratic primary they were waiting for.

If they wanted to vote in the Republican primary they should come see me and I would tell them where to go.

All day long people came up and I looked up their precinct on the list and told them where their primary was. Some of them were real IRATE and wanted to know know who set it up this way and why! I told them to talk to the SOS.

At the end of the day we had over 1,300 Democratic primary voters and hundreds of causer's to start the democratic process in motion. I am luck enough to be a delegate to the county convention.

I plan on bringing resolutions and going to state where the Populist wing of our party is planning on taking our party back.

VIVA

[Vogon_Glory]

2. My Aunt was A R Precinct Worker

My aunt was a Republican precinct worker. I drove her out to the polls for her 8:00--12:00 shift, since she's getting up there in years. She told me that her precinct was fairly quiet, but that she kept getting confused Democrats who kept coming through the doors looking for the Democratic primary location. She even got a couple of VERY confsed D's who were so upset by the hour-and-a-half wait at the Democratic precincts that they were willing to vote Republican just to say they voted (Heads up, people! THAT'S what early voting is good for--avoiding this situation!).

I am daring to hope again after the bitter disappointments of 2000, 2002, 2004, and the stalemate we got in 2006. Divine Providence might have mercy on our country this year, and the Rethugs might spend the short end of 2008 wondering what sort of political earthquake cum tidal wave hit them at the polls in November.

[texanwitch]

3. To start with I worked two weeks at early voting in Houston at a very busy voting location.

From the start of the day we had a line, we voted record number of voters everyday.

After only a few days to rest I worked my home precinct which was Republican only, so I spent the day sending voters to the proper Democratic voting precinct.

At the Democratic voting location they had over 600 voters, the Republicans at my home precinct had under 300 voters.

The Repbublicans running the polls had 6 precincts to votes because so many Republican judges didn't want to work the election.

I got to see a lot off nasty, pissed off Repubs that had to vote in our little school far away from their homes.

The Democrats were very nice and thanked me for being there to help them get the proper precinct to vote.

At early voting we had a lot of Repbublicans vote Democrat, we knew this because of the way they said Democrat.

They voted very fast, this was a giveaway.

I did enjoy stamping the Repblicans cards Democrat which we had to do.

The look on the Republicans face was priceless, but they couldn't say a thing about it.

Yes it was a interesting two weeks of early voting and election day.

[CoolOnion]

4. K&R Great story

Did anybody report that judge for intimidating her clerk? I'm not a legal expert, but I think probably when a boss threatens to fire someone if they vote Democratic it's called "voter intimidation," right?

Good work out there!

[cloudbase]

5. I clerked at a combined polling place for three precincts.

Start 0600, Finish 2200. Sixteen hours that almost make me want to reinstate a literacy test for voters. Besides the never ending tape showing how to use the eslate machines, and the instructions taped to the machines, and the signs at eye level stating that the eslate machine is NOT a touch screen, people still couldn't figure it out.

I guess that's why they were paying us the big bucks.