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jennlkAnother year of civic service done. nearly 900 AV ballots counted. Our numbers all matched at 8:10pm, after duplicating a few ballots and checking with the clerk after her 8pm run to the drop box. (whee!!) It took another couple of hours to get out of the building, but a lot of that time was spent waiting for the receiving board to finish checking in the live floor. (There are 10 people on live floor, and they can't leave until the election is checked in. There are only 4 people in AV. Given a choice of 8 people or 2 people hanging around with nothing to do, they get the live floor done first.) It's a sad commentary on something when I'm the security geek in the room....
The transphobic/homophobic/misogynistic/election-denying (female) gubernatorial candidate lost. As did the rest of the crazy Rs running for state positions (the AG candidate is under investigation for election tampering, the SoS candidate is on record as saying that Dems are 'demon worshiping' and is under investigation for attempting to crash her car with her kids in it).
And the local School Board candidates who want to tell the teachers exactly what they can teach (no telling our kids about the exploitation of Native Americans/Blacks/Chinese/Irish/Italian/other immigrants, or letting them know that there are people in the world who are not Just Like Them, or that there is more to gender than Male|Female, or more to sexual attraction than male+female) and claim that their rights are being infringed upon when the school bans hate speech lost handily. There were a bunch of campaigners for them at the polling place yesterday who got the cops called - they had set up a table in the far parking lot (fine) and were waving signs (fine) and handing people campaign material as they walked past (also fine), but then they got aggressive and attempted to intimidate voters, especially elderly ones who might not have been keeping that close an eye on the school board election (Not Fine). The local clerk was getting calls from voters about them, the county clerk of elections got calls, and the sheriff got calls from voters as well as from the clerk. The site chair went out to talk to them, and warn them that the cops were going to be called, but the campaigners didn't seem to care. Until the cops showed up, and a deputy hung around until dark when the campaigners left.
J said that there was a cop on duty at our polling place, friendly and polite but dressed to intimidate - full black, body armor, armed with billy club and sidearm. They probably didn't get the campaigners that we did. (I work at a different precinct than I vote at. This is allowed -- I could actually work anywhere in MI, as long as my training is current.)
J is really jonesing for this trip to Chicago. We can't leave until I get out of work on Thursday, but he packed yesterday. I guess he got tired of his usual way, in which he throws things into a suitcase and realises when we arrive that he didn't pack pajamas or toothpaste or a comb or a sweatshirt for August in the UP, or packed mostly long sleeves for a week in the Carolinas in July. Which is good in some ways, but now the suitcase is in the middle of the dining room - at least put it in your office where *I* won't be tripping over it, m-kay?
The transphobic/homophobic/misogynistic/election-denying (female) gubernatorial candidate lost. As did the rest of the crazy Rs running for state positions (the AG candidate is under investigation for election tampering, the SoS candidate is on record as saying that Dems are 'demon worshiping' and is under investigation for attempting to crash her car with her kids in it).
And the local School Board candidates who want to tell the teachers exactly what they can teach (no telling our kids about the exploitation of Native Americans/Blacks/Chinese/Irish/Italian/other immigrants, or letting them know that there are people in the world who are not Just Like Them, or that there is more to gender than Male|Female, or more to sexual attraction than male+female) and claim that their rights are being infringed upon when the school bans hate speech lost handily. There were a bunch of campaigners for them at the polling place yesterday who got the cops called - they had set up a table in the far parking lot (fine) and were waving signs (fine) and handing people campaign material as they walked past (also fine), but then they got aggressive and attempted to intimidate voters, especially elderly ones who might not have been keeping that close an eye on the school board election (Not Fine). The local clerk was getting calls from voters about them, the county clerk of elections got calls, and the sheriff got calls from voters as well as from the clerk. The site chair went out to talk to them, and warn them that the cops were going to be called, but the campaigners didn't seem to care. Until the cops showed up, and a deputy hung around until dark when the campaigners left.
J said that there was a cop on duty at our polling place, friendly and polite but dressed to intimidate - full black, body armor, armed with billy club and sidearm. They probably didn't get the campaigners that we did. (I work at a different precinct than I vote at. This is allowed -- I could actually work anywhere in MI, as long as my training is current.)
J is really jonesing for this trip to Chicago. We can't leave until I get out of work on Thursday, but he packed yesterday. I guess he got tired of his usual way, in which he throws things into a suitcase and realises when we arrive that he didn't pack pajamas or toothpaste or a comb or a sweatshirt for August in the UP, or packed mostly long sleeves for a week in the Carolinas in July. Which is good in some ways, but now the suitcase is in the middle of the dining room - at least put it in your office where *I* won't be tripping over it, m-kay?
