2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHas anyone else worked as a poll worker
If you have then you know there are always issues at the polling site.
Voter registration cards are sometimes sent out before the official voter roll is generated.
There's always the possibility that someone filled out a form wrong and the clerk's office can't process it.
When I moved back east from California, I registered at the DMV when I got my new license. I called my county clerk's office and was told that they never received my form. I followed up on it and made sure I was registered in the end.
There's always the possibility of human error in the clerk's office. The case that comes to mind is one of shooters from last year was identified as female on the election rolls. I think it was the guy who shot up the community college in Oregon. If you go to the poll and the worker tells you that you're listed as female when you're male, a reasonable person would take steps to fix the problem.
Voter fraud exists but not in the scale that some people believe it does. If you want to vote, find out what you have to do so in Election Day there won't be any problems for you.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)dlwickham
(3,316 posts)It's people not doing what they're supposed to do in order to vote.
I know my state has a website that you can check to see if your voter information is correct and it lists your polling place as well.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)tazkcmo
(7,306 posts)We all know about the concerted effort by the GOP to suppress the vote and that was in evidence here. They went from 200 to 60 polling places, none convenient to low income and minority neighborhoods and based the locations on "likely turn out". Having said that, it's not reasonable to claim fraud at Sen Sanders' expense and Sec Clinton's gain as they are both harmed by that tactic. They under served likely Democratic voters and that harmed both candidates. You could make the case Sec Clinton could have won by an even larger margin had there been more polling places available.
No, what bothers me even more is the second class effort we as a nation put into the process. Things like running out of ballots, poorly trained poll workers (I would like paid professionals), lack of transparency and electronic machines with no trail. Our current effort is embarrassing.
msongs
(67,496 posts)they were not paying attention to their own voter guide information
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)And yes I have been a poll worker.
pansypoo53219
(21,009 posts)2008 cause it was gonna be big. took a short class. WI had same day registration. lots of provisional ballots. we still use PENCILS, but a machine counter like standardized tests. if its miss marked, it spits it out, they had me sit in diff sections. one lady's came out, she elected EVERYBODY for president. give them a new ballot + explain. had party watchers from each 'team'. it was pretty quiet, but dang. my vote counts the same......
LisaM
(27,850 posts)I also heard that they were entering peoples' names on iPads in one of the states which is absolutely insane.
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)It's a pain the ass especially if you're busy
dlwickham
(3,316 posts)LisaM
(27,850 posts)They said it was slowing the process down to key in the names (I saw it on CNN and I don't have a link).
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)In 2008, worst thing that happened was this person who wanted to write someone in and was given a hard time to do it. I stepped in to try to help but they stormed out.
2000 was something else entirely, of course.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)This is something that we have to get right.