Pima County dilemma: It can't find enough Republican poll workers

[Ptah]

TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - “Under state statute, at every vote center, the county must have an equal number Republicans and Democrats as election judges. The problem is, the Republicans just are not signing up to be poll workers like they did in the past so many of the 129 vote centers are short.

“There are 17 that are missing one judge or maybe the judge of the opposite party,” said Constance Hargrove, the Pima County Elections Director. “And the majority of them are going to be Republican poll workers.

Not staffing correctly is a Class 2 misdemeanor, but doing it purposefully can be a Class 5 felony.

According to a recently released county memo, there are 26, or could be as many as 32, vote centers which don’t have equal representation but that has since dropped to 17 according to Hargrove. There is hope but it’s not a guarantee all the positions will be filled by election day.

“We can’t cancel an election, we cannot arbitrarily close a polling place because we can’t find equal representation,” she said. “So we staff as best we can.”

https://www.kold.com/2022/10/15/pima-county-dilemma-it-cant-find-enough-republican-poll-workers/

[yellowdogintexas]

1. Tarrant CO Texas needs Democratic Alternate judges

to work locations where the lead judge is Republican.

We have 48 unfilled Alternate slots which need to be filled by Democrats.


This is a problem all over the state; the Tx Sec of State has concerns that we will be running shorthanded all over the state, according to an article I read last week. There has been so much talk of potential violence at the polls that people are afraid to work.

[jmowreader]

2. Tell me this isn't their latest voter suppression tactic

“We’ll just make sure they can’t open the polls.”

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3. Tucson/Pima County is always blue. They'll import...

some repubs if they have to.

[Cha]

4. Best of Good Luck to Pima Co!

Good ol Tucson.. I lived there in the early '60s at the UofA Good Times!