I spent yesterday and this morning replacing 4 election workers for tomorrow.

[texanwitch]

I can have 9, two are in the hospital and two just dropped out.

I now have either 8 or 9 and I can hire at the poles.

Shit, so much for a quiet weekend.

[texanwitch]

1. Yea, I have all my workers, all 9.

I am really happy to be working the election tomorrow, history is being made.

[crispini]

2. Nine! Dang, you have a big precinct.

I get five, and we have 3000 registered voters in our precinct.

[texanwitch]

3. I have 3,037 voters and growing.

I had 1,037 vote early.

Tomorrow will be a busy day.

I was surprised that I was allowed 9 people but that 9 includes me and the republican judge.

I hope it will be enough.

[LeftyMom]

4. Dang, we only get four or five.

But we sometimes run two precincts in one polling place instead of letting them get real big. (In '04 I had a city and a county precinct in the same polling place. That was a damned mess, because their ballots were totally different, but half the voters didn't know which side of the dividing line they were on.) I wish we didn't, it confuses the hell out of people, and inevitably, no matter how much you tell people not to, somebody sticks their ballot in the wrong scanner and screws up the count.

[texanwitch]

5. My precinct was two at one time, now it is one.

It is getting to big to handle and the school is to small for the crowds we get.

More and more townhouses are going up which means lots more voters.

I have never seen a scanner, we use eslate voting machines, don't think I trust them.

They are not touch screens but still machines.

[LeftyMom]

6. Basically we have scantrons to vote on, and a big giant black box that scans both sides.

The nice thing about that setup is that it's very accommodating of crowds, as long as people aren't real picky about using the booths we can have as many people voting at once as we can fit in the room, with only minimal bottlenecking at the scanner. As a result, we never have lines that get longer than 15 minutesish, the only real slowdown is marking people down in the recordbook and handing out their ballots.

[texanwitch]

7. Sounds good to me.

We had long lines at the early voting locations and will have long lines at the polls tomorrow.

I have broke the two books into four hoping to speed up the signing in.

I have enough clerks to handle four books.

I am glad so many of the voters have already voted.