POLL WORKING & VOTER GUIDELINES FROM CALIFORNIA First non-comment post!  So honored to be here!  So thankful for this historic time in our country!  Didn’t realize it, but I’ve been waiting most of my adult life for a President like this, and want to do anything to support him!  Today it’s “just words” he needs, I think!   Tomorrow I will be working the Polls in California, so I thought I would give you a summary from the training, then follow-up Wednesday. Be the First Voter – Represent John Q Public! The First Voter in line at Poll Opening gets a special little ceremony where the leader (Inspector) of the Poll location tells him or her, “You represent THE PUBLIC.  Your participation helps us preserve history and protect democracy”… Then they are shown the empty vote containers and zeroed out vote counters on machines before locking all of the bins!  It would be AWESOME to have ANONS be that John Q. Public wherever possible this midterm elections!! Some Interesting Polling Place Rules: Poll Worker Procedures: **BE A POLL WORKER IF YOU CAN IN THE FUTURE! ** In California the machines will all be new in 2020.  Everyone will be a newbie.  The people at the training were 20 years older than me!  I’m NOT being ageist, but if you’re 18 or over, you can be a Poll Worker.  Get involved!  (Especially notice the Inspector duties!  They are volunteers just like you or me, who may have volunteered as a clerk ONCE before.) All duties are explicitly outlined and documented.   Nothing is left to chance.  Everyone has a step-by-step manual.  I was amazed at how detailed the training program was, how step-by-step, and seemingly “idiot proof.”  And yet, #eyeroll, people get ahead of procedures, and can’t work as teams, etc.  When it is all said and done, they tried to build a better mousetrap, so to speak, and machines won’t work unless set up correctly, so whatever it takes for people to work together is what it takes.   Poll Inspector – Leader of a Poll Worker Team Poll Workers – MAKE THE VOTING EXPERIENCE GREAT AGAIN! AT CLOSE OF POLLS (Open to the Public) Hope this is helpful!   I know we have been given reason to doubt the validity of our votes, and suspect tampering with the vote, but there are pretty strict guidelines and witnessed procedures.  Are there holes in the procedures and opportunities to cheat?  Sure.  Especially with no ID required, but cheating only seems to clog up the works.  It seems it could be easily caught with the audit trail.  Dead registered voters, etc. Yes they are possible.  But there are flags to catch them if those who WOULD catch them are honest.  I know, there-in lies the rub. Feel free to observe your polling place!  Feel free to THANK your poll workers – they will be there 15 hours.  Feel free to volunteer for the next election!! (In about a month or two, after vote counting is done, call your registrar’s office, or watch for the form on your 2020 election materials.) GOD BLESS & PLEASE PRAY!  MAGA MAGA MAGA!!     MAKE CALIFORNIA GREAT AGAIN!     This is REAGAN COUNTRY!  WWG1WGA!!