Reply #37: The presiding judge takes the tapes and other material to [View All]

[seriousstan]

the Ohio State Fairgrounds and drop them off to the officials working the pick up area. I am our precinct's presiding judge, so I was the one delivering them. We are a heavily Dem area and I have had this position for over a decade.

I witness no irregularities other than the ENORMOUS turnout, that really warmed my heart. I was very proud of all the people who stuck it out.

The cartridges go in a plastic pouch. If you are asking about after I hand them over, I don't know.

Every poll worker signs off on the paper printout when we open the machines in the morning and then we sign at the end of the tapes after we take them out of the machines at the end of the day. We also sign the seal on the provisional ballot envelope.

Other than out signatures, we record protective counters on the back of the machines at the beginning and end. We also record all seal numbers opening and closing the polling booths.

We don't have those kind of machines. We have the blinking red light, plastic overlay with buttons underneath type. When you select a candidate or issue and press the button next to his name, the red lights that were flashing change to a solid red light beside your choice and disappear from beside the one you didn't push. We had no complaints.

We do always have some Luddites that think they need to mark the overlays with the write-in pencil. :)