Where does the time go?
Feb. 19th, 2024 09:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlk(there's a song in there somewhere.)
Last weekend, I worked the Early Voting polling place down the street (fsvo) -- it's the one I'd vote at, so it's my "local" polling place.
We had 48 voters over the two days (less than .05% of the registered voters in the "local"). The rest of the county has had similar turnouts, percentage wise. I don't know what the statewide turnout has been. To be fair, it's the first time Michigan has ever done in-person early voting, so it's not a "thing" yet. I've not been watching the news, so I don't know how much coverage it's been getting. I'll be back there on Wednesday. Early Voting runs through next Sunday, but I've got an election to set up for the township I work at, so I'll be there instead. It will be interesting to see the changes that are made in the set up for the August election. (Most of the jurisdictions in Washtenaw county have signed on to a county-facilitated collaborative Early Voting -- many of the jurisdictions outside of Ann Arbor & Ypsi have part time clerks/staff, and don't have the money or the personnel to run 9 days of Early Voting and *still* set up for an in-person election.)
We still need to figure out when the Absent Voter counting board is going to come in on election day. To some extent, it will depend on how many ballots we get in this week, but I really don't think it'll be before noon.
Last weekend, I worked the Early Voting polling place down the street (fsvo) -- it's the one I'd vote at, so it's my "local" polling place.
We had 48 voters over the two days (less than .05% of the registered voters in the "local"). The rest of the county has had similar turnouts, percentage wise. I don't know what the statewide turnout has been. To be fair, it's the first time Michigan has ever done in-person early voting, so it's not a "thing" yet. I've not been watching the news, so I don't know how much coverage it's been getting. I'll be back there on Wednesday. Early Voting runs through next Sunday, but I've got an election to set up for the township I work at, so I'll be there instead. It will be interesting to see the changes that are made in the set up for the August election. (Most of the jurisdictions in Washtenaw county have signed on to a county-facilitated collaborative Early Voting -- many of the jurisdictions outside of Ann Arbor & Ypsi have part time clerks/staff, and don't have the money or the personnel to run 9 days of Early Voting and *still* set up for an in-person election.)
We still need to figure out when the Absent Voter counting board is going to come in on election day. To some extent, it will depend on how many ballots we get in this week, but I really don't think it'll be before noon.
