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jennlkI told them it was a bad idea. I asked them if it was something they really wanted to do. But they went and did it anyway, and so it took an extra four hours to close out the absentee board yesterday. A really stupid procedural error that didn't affect anything except the election workers. And I'm leaving it at that because I'm still fucking annoyed by it. Getting home at 1:30am is not my idea of fun. Worse off were the township clerk and deputy clerk who still had to take the USB sticks into A2 for the Board of Canvassers to verify before they could go home.
Apparently, the live floor was worse in many ways. Lotsa people are publicly worried about what the Board of Elections can do to make it safe for voters, but the biggest problem they had was other voters, not the facility or the voting procedures. People who think that policies (masks please; if you're not wearing a mask, use this booth over here, out of the main path; etc) are great for other people, but not them. And people who don't care that the workers are following the book, the rules should be different for them Right Now. And entitled parents who blame the election chairs when their teenager's first election experience isn't what they wanted for him (but they didn't care enough to come with him, but complained after he got home and they asked him). And then there was the election worker whose abrasive entitled partisanship has gotten the clerk to say that she won't ever ask zie to work an election again - zie'd said that zie wouldn't work the election if there was no way to make voters wear masks (in bold text, even), yet there zie was on election day, insisting that zie'd never said that to anyone. The floor chair had cc'd us all on her reply to zie (in which she included the official policy on masks), so we'd all seen it.
And I haven't worked live floor in an election for years, and the site chairs called me upstairs three separate times to help with the electronic poll book. Two of them for really simple shit that should have been obvious and one of them a user error that probably would have taken me about five minutes to back out and repair if I could sit down with the machine. But I couldn't touch the machine because I wasn't working floor, and there was nobody on floor whom I could trust to walk through it; not that I could have anyway because they still had voters coming in. It didn't affect anything except ease of recordkeeping, so I told them to document the hell out of it, and deal with it after.
(edited for pronouns and clarity.)
Apparently, the live floor was worse in many ways. Lotsa people are publicly worried about what the Board of Elections can do to make it safe for voters, but the biggest problem they had was other voters, not the facility or the voting procedures. People who think that policies (masks please; if you're not wearing a mask, use this booth over here, out of the main path; etc) are great for other people, but not them. And people who don't care that the workers are following the book, the rules should be different for them Right Now. And entitled parents who blame the election chairs when their teenager's first election experience isn't what they wanted for him (but they didn't care enough to come with him, but complained after he got home and they asked him). And then there was the election worker whose abrasive entitled partisanship has gotten the clerk to say that she won't ever ask zie to work an election again - zie'd said that zie wouldn't work the election if there was no way to make voters wear masks (in bold text, even), yet there zie was on election day, insisting that zie'd never said that to anyone. The floor chair had cc'd us all on her reply to zie (in which she included the official policy on masks), so we'd all seen it.
And I haven't worked live floor in an election for years, and the site chairs called me upstairs three separate times to help with the electronic poll book. Two of them for really simple shit that should have been obvious and one of them a user error that probably would have taken me about five minutes to back out and repair if I could sit down with the machine. But I couldn't touch the machine because I wasn't working floor, and there was nobody on floor whom I could trust to walk through it; not that I could have anyway because they still had voters coming in. It didn't affect anything except ease of recordkeeping, so I told them to document the hell out of it, and deal with it after.
(edited for pronouns and clarity.)
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Date: 2020-08-06 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-08-06 08:40 pm (UTC)I don't mind honest mistakes (we all made those), but stupid shit that could have been avoided with a bit of thought bugs the hell out of me. Especially when it costs me 4 hours.