Election Day!

[Ray]

Wish me - and us all - luck tomorrow. It’s gonna be a damned long day!

I’ll spend about three hours today setting up the local precinct, and tomorrow I’ll get to the polling place at 5:30am to make sure all the equipment is turned on and ready for 6:30 poll opening.

I have three roles - one as a general worker, rotating through logging voters in, drive-up voting, and the like, one as a “machine tech”, where I am responsible for the ballot scanner, the thumb drive that logs the votes, and the paper ballots. The third role is that of an election judge, basically keeping an eye on everything to help insure everything is on the up-and-up.

At the end of voting - polls close at 7:30, but anyone in line at that time can still vote - I print three copies of the results. One is posted inside an exterior window so the data is public, one goes with the chief judge with the thumb drive and paper ballots back to the county board of elections, and the third goes home with me, where a large glass of wine wil be awaiting.