So Virginia has a special election on April 21 because we have a constitutional amendment on the ballot.
Any of you who have seen my #electionofficer posts know that I'll live post throughout the day. I just got my assignment.
Back in January, I was at a library where I called it "election […]
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I thought I was done with this #electionofficer thread because the #elections were Tuesday. But not quite.
I found out today that my collector officers were the very first out of all 19 precincts to turn in their results. They got cheers from the staff when they arrived. There aren’t a lot of […]
This thread is getting a little attention so I thought I would add one more #electionofficer opinion. This is my personal opinion and I speak for no one but me.
Fairfax County #elections are secure.
The election hacking happens every day EXCEPT #electionday. Otherwise well-intentioned people […]
Fina couple #electionofficer posts for today. We had about 270 in-person voters in a precinct of about 2500. Add to that I think 100 absentee and early voters and this precinct had a participation rate of about 15%.
The vote total was about 170 D to 100 R. So the democrat took it handily.
Very […]
My assistant chief is experienced, which is great. But he’s dozing in his chair. It’s quiet enough that that’s fine.
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#elections #electionofficer
A member of the actual board of elections showed up to say thank you. Brought us a box of donuts. That’s nice. That’s another thing that has never happened before.
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#electionofficer #election
So here’s a root post for my #electionofficer work. Mute or follow as it suits you.
It’s a special #election in Fairfax County Virginia. 17th district in the Virginia House of Delegates (like a state-level House of Representatives or House of Commons). Virginia also has a State Senate.
These […]
Alarm set for 03:45 and coffee set to start at 04:00. Tomorrow is an #electionday and I’m an #electionofficer. I often post live through the day when I do. You can either mute or follow along as you like.
Tomorrow is a special election in Virginia’s 17th […]
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As promised, the final #electionofficer post. I’m home with a glass of wine in my hand. I will be going to bed early. We got out about 8:15pm, which is such a change from the 8:45-9:00 exits we used to do. It gets easier each time. My chief was the fastest out in the whole county in September […]
🎼closing time.
You don’t have to do home
But you can’t vote here…🎶
#electionofficer
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We are 20 minutes from polls closing and once that starts I won’t be posting until I’m home.
Now we are in this tense period where we try to judge how many more #voters will come. See, ballots come in packs of 200. If we open a pack, two people have to count all 200. Twice. It takes a while. So […]
Im not going to paste the entire table of contents here. But some of the examples are things like “voter doesn’t have acceptable id” and “voter is not on the e-pollbook” and “absentee comes to polling place” both with and without their absentee ballot.
In message 18 I said this was #electionofficer on hard mode. I can illustrate it.
For chief officers like me, they give us a book with a whole chapter of 23 “what-ifs”. Here’s the table of contents for that chapter with the numbers circled if we encountered […]
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Photo of a folding knife partly open. The benchmade logo is clearly visible on the blade.
Photo of a bag with a plastic zip tie though the zipper pulls. The zip tie has a barcode and a serial number visible.
Here’s an experienced #electionofficer tip. My best friend is into knives and a few years ago he gave me this as a Christmas present. It’s #Benchmade. Really nice. Super light.
I bring it to the #elections because you never have enough cutters. We cut […]
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Almost 2pm and I’m just getting to shove down some lunch. The voter rush over the lunch hour was intense.
This precinct is #electionofficer on hard mode difficulty level. You name it, I’ve seen it today.
* lives here but not on the poll book
* moved elsewhere in the county but is allowed […]
Passing it on: we got a high school page.
They swear in like an officer and she will work 8 hours through closing. But she can’t do anything sensitive. Guide people, put up or take down signs, hand out stickers or something. But she gets to see how […]
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Shout out to the guy from 2 counties over who saw the “vote here” signs and stopped in to have a go. Sorry, but uh, it doesn’t work that way. I was all stressed that I couldn’t find anyone even remotely close to his name on the books. Then he said where he lived. 😆
It’s likely he won’t get to […]
In message 2 of this thread I talked about how this location gets a lot of voters who want to vote here but aren’t eligible. We are at 12:00pm. We have 220 voters on the machines.
We have had at least 280 people come up and want to vote. 60 people (27.2%) have been turned away because they’re […]
Photo of a wall with a window to one side. On the wall are two long, strips of paper that resemble grocery store receipts. They are taped up with a couple pieces of painters tape.
When we open and close the polls, the machines spit out these long reports that look like giant cash register receipts. They’re 4-5cm wide and probably 2m long. There’s 3 copies of important stuff. These are the opening tapes (just showing that there were 0 […]
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Photo of two political signs. One is yellow with bold black letters that says “stop raising taxes”. The other is white with blue letters and some red stripes resembling the US flag. It says “only citizens vote.
A couple bizarre non-party signs that were posted out in the parking lot.
I really don’t understand the “only citizens vote” sign. I mean, yes, that is true. Is a bear catholic? Does the pope… wait, let me start over.
But really. Are they stating a fact? […]
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Some developments in #electionofficer #masking. In 118 voters I have seen 3 masked. But now 3 out of 8 officers are masked! Better than average. One woman had her husband bring her a mask (we are not allowed to leave the site until polls close and we finish our closing). Her husband, however […]
Cast your mind back to June 2020. Presidential #election is on people’s minds. #voters are gearing up. People who have never voted before are gonna register and #vote! (Yay!) in June 2020, in my district, the Republican Party held a primary for their federal races. The way we do it in Fairfax is […]
If a voter gets a ballot, marks it in any way, and then we have to issue them another, for whatever reason, that’s spoiled. Maybe they realise they voted wrong. Maybe they had a stray mark and the machine kicked it out. Whatever. If it got a mark, we have them black out all the circles and we […]
You’d be surprised how many people register for #absenteevoting , get their ballot in the mail, and then bring it to the polling place. Or, they don’t bring it, and they rock up at the polling place and want to vote.
We KNOW we mailed you a ballot. Maybe you didn’t get it, maybe you did. You’re […]
We have a few basic principles:
* the voter can’t be in possession of more than 1 ballot
* we must account for EVERY ballot we know about
If you want to try again on a fresh ballot, that’s fine. We ask you (not us) to fill in ALL the circles so we can’t tell anything about how you […]
We use paper ballots that are scanned by machine. You can see one below. The machines are set to handle a bunch of different situations:
* overvote: voting for more than one person (eg for President) or more than allowed (eg marking 4 choices for school board when you can only select 3)
* […]
Not surprisingly, I am the only #electionofficer wearing a mask. #voter number 50 was the first voter to come in wearing a mask.
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#electionday #CovidIsNotOver
Photo of the official election map of Virginia taped up on the wall of our precinct. There are various colored congressional districts subdivided into voting precincts with thick grey lines. The 9th congressional district, where I am today, is a light blue on the westernmost part of the map
A zoomed in photo showing most of the 9th district. In the center, with a red box and a red arrow drawn on the photo, is the tiny triangle of Lichtenstein. Or, as the locals call it, precinct 935 Robinson Mill
Fun with #election maps. Because we turn people away, we sometimes have to refer them to the map to show them where to vote. We had someone show up who should vote in 935 Robinson Mill. The polling place is Bull Run Elementary. But we couldn’t find 935 on […]
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On the other hand, another #electionofficer asked me “how do you do curbside voters?” Apparently this precinct doesn’t get a lot of those. Back in the September special election I did 6 or 7 (which is high, in my experience). They are no big deal for me.
So here they are experienced in stuff I […]
We have only had maybe 2 dozen voters so far and I’ve already had to do 3 special #electionofficer things:
* send a voter to the right precinct
* check in a voter who was marked “inactive”
* deal with a voter who just moved into this district. They get to vote, but they vote a provisional […]
