Report on dropping off absentee ballot--Not good.

[longship]

The poll workers at my polling place do not know what to do with dropped off absentee ballots. I do this every election.

They asked me to sign in. I told them I had an absentee ballot to drop off. They told me that I still had to sign. I told them that I had signed my absentee envelope (and showed them that I had).

The poll worker would have had me sign in at the polls which would have exposed me to prosecution for voting twice!!!

Finally, the poll judge came over and cleared things up. He said, "Just drop the ballot in this box and you're done. No sign in necessary."

Surely they train these people. Yet I could have had my vote cancelled, or worse, been prosecuted because of their incompetence.

Location: Ontario, California.

[whistle]

1. "Surely they train these people?" Wrong assumption I'm afraid

...These are mostly volunteer poll workers or if they are paid it is only minimum wage. They are given manuals and handouts to read and study on their own and may have had an orientation session before early voting began over a month ago.

Periodic memos and notices are regularly distributed with new instructions and rules, but little or no follow-up supervision is ever done tom ensure all poll volunteers know what is expected of them.

It is sad, but true. I know several poll workers personally and they basically familiarize themselves with the requirements. When really bad workers are dropped and then the polling supervisors send out for untrained volunteers and in some cases hire temporary workers from agencies who provide nothing in the form of training. Then there are the packs of poll workers who are affiliated with political parties and come in with an agenda. That is where the real danger of misleading and vote stealing seems to be.