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another one down
Aug. 3rd, 2022 12:38 pmmore election news, better this time. We got out of the township hall at 10:30, after starting at 9am. We pretty much consider this a win. CG and JM got really anal about the running page counts, after getting screwed by that in November. (note to self, put calculator in election bag, because no one else will remember.) I need to do some thinking and figure out how many ballots the four of us can process in a day. JM is kind of hoping that we can keep the Absent Voter Count Board down at four people, so we'll fit in the upstairs office, rather than using the (smelly, muuuchh larger than we need) fire bay. The office is just about as full as we can handle with four people and the tabulator, so adding even one more person would be difficult. (I thought that putting the live floor in the fire bay and the AV board upstairs in the conference room would work, but apparently there are Reasons why that can't happen. There's plenty of space in the fire bay to do a really nice well spaced voter loop, all on one level.)
Ran just over 500 ballots for an off-year MI primary. Still a certain number of people who can't follow instructions, and a few others who made a mistake and "fixed" it, rather than asking the clerk for a new ballot. The AV chair needs to get better at closing elections. It took her two hours to get everything filed correctly -- we ran the final tally tape at 8:10, but didn't get out until 10:30. JM and I were wandering around putting things away while the Chair and CG were figuring out what went in which envelope, and how to get the storage bags sealed correctly (to be fair, it's not as easy as it sounds. It's probably as easy as it can be, given requirements and restrictions.). JM and I were actually done when JM taped the tally tape up in the window of the township hall, and I finished making sure that all of the large envelopes going places were properly labelled with AVCB.
Ran just over 500 ballots for an off-year MI primary. Still a certain number of people who can't follow instructions, and a few others who made a mistake and "fixed" it, rather than asking the clerk for a new ballot. The AV chair needs to get better at closing elections. It took her two hours to get everything filed correctly -- we ran the final tally tape at 8:10, but didn't get out until 10:30. JM and I were wandering around putting things away while the Chair and CG were figuring out what went in which envelope, and how to get the storage bags sealed correctly (to be fair, it's not as easy as it sounds. It's probably as easy as it can be, given requirements and restrictions.). JM and I were actually done when JM taped the tally tape up in the window of the township hall, and I finished making sure that all of the large envelopes going places were properly labelled with AVCB.
