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.

[WaterWitchin]

Good for you Ray. Respect to everyone who volunteers for the voting process.

After that day, I suggest a good Merlot. Perfect pairing.

[FranningtonBear]

Sending all the positivity for the election from the UK!

[rbarata]

May the best woman win!
Sorry, couldn't resist!
I'm ready for the punishment!

[Arne]

Good luck Ray!

[Ray]

I began as a pollworker for the 2020 election. It was SO contentious and there was SO MUCH BS being spread about the lack of voting security, I wanted to see it for myself.

I have learned that, here in Brunswick County NC at least, it is rock solid.

I participate in a boating and fishing forum that has participants from all walks of life, and I find it remarkable how much disinformation some of them have bought into, so I did a little digging (and you know me) and threw some math at the facts.

The Heritage Foundation (The right-wing organization responsible for Project 2025) has identified and documented 1561 cases fraud in ALL ELECTIONS adjudicated since 1979. Not all were fraudulent votes cast, but included attempts to do so - and to reiterate - not all in presidential elections.

In just the presidential elections held over that time period, 1,332,936,041 votes have been cast, according to the American Presidency Project at UC Santa Barbara.

If we assume (incorrectly, but to make a point) that all of those fraud cases were, indeed, votes cast in just presidential elections, that means that the “rampant fraud level” is 0.000117%.

DON’T BUY THE BS. YOUR VOTE IS SECURE.

VOTE!!!

(I was accused of fabricating the data, by the way.)

[Arne]

If just everyone could stick to the facts. Thanks for that Ray.

[Louis_W]

Thanks for volunteering Ray! Good luck tomorrow!

[Subrosa]

The security of the actual voting process can be tight as a drum, and there can still be issues with a fair vote. For instance, in 2020 the census was done, and of course Senate and House seats are apportionment based upon these results. As are electors in the electoral college. The census bureau comes out with an audit after each census, and the audit after the last census admits to significant overcounting in some states and under counting in others. This has resulted in at least 2, possibly 3 electoral votes being given to states that don't deserve them at the expense of the states that do. Here's a link to the census bureau website where this is explained, and the affected states are listed:
Census Bureau Today Releases 2020 Census Undercount, Overcount Rates by State

[Ray]

A very good example of another reason people need to vote!