The story about the police is ridiculous and in line with everything activists complain about. Police are not supposed to "puff up" they're supposed to be the cool heads.
My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
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Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oregon has one of the worst voter-registration online systems in the country however, a date of birth + residency will give access to party registration of the individual, alongside some other information I believe.
IIRC Oregon is one of the states that sells a big CSV of every registered voters name, address, and party affiliation. So really all they're doing is competing with their own business Quick edit: It's $500 to get data for everyone in the state, but there might be an extra fee if you want to know when they voted
Holy cow, that is nuts. Like I could actually buy that myself if I wanted? USA really needs a privacy amendment to the constitution quite badly.
Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
#253A fascinating post and I'm thankful for the post. Interesting to learn the experiences first hand.
That said, it's sad to see we're no better than any other forum that just turns into political bullshit arguments sooner or later.
Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
#254I'm as much of a technophile as any other HN reader, but I am continuously flummoxed that anyone makes use of the sort of electronic voting machines described in this article. This is mainly from the perspective that a lot of the redundancy and auditability of the system seemed to rely on a bunch of printers working perfectly.
Paper ballots and a pencil/pen are still hugely more reliable and trustworthy, IMO.
Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
#255I'm as much of a technophile as any other HN reader, but I am continuously flummoxed that anyone makes use of the sort of electronic voting machines described in this article. This is mainly from the perspective that a lot of the redundancy and auditability of the system seemed to rely on a bunch of printers working perfectly. Paper ballots and a pencil/pen are still hugely more reliable and trustworthy, IMO.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
In the UK, everything is done on paper - even if there was potential for fraud, scaling it across the whole nation would take years and huge amounts of money (and even more hush money)
Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, that's much different. I wonder if the machines are unique to Philly, then.
If it helps, the machines described in OP sound similar to what we used here four years ago. I haven't voted in between though so I'm not sure when the switchover actually took place here.
Philadelphia County switched their machines to a new style in 2019.
Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
#257Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its not "lucky" at all, this was an orchestrated outcome. Theres 2 components to this: 1. Mail in ballots were heavily partisan. The president made a point to instruct Republican voters to vote in person, and not by mail. And many other correlated factors (eg. COVID and social distancing has also been heavily politicized, influencing whether a voter would vote in person vs mail in). 2. Mail in ballots were delayed. T…
# 1 would fit, if there were a proportionate number of mail-in ballots for Jo Jorgensen and Kanye West. If you have 10,000 ballots, some of those will be expected. Tens of thousands of Biden-only? Repeatedly? Doesn't pass the sniff test.
What does “Biden only” votes mean to you? Is that where you see vote totals jump for Biden, but not for any other candidate? Because your conclusion from that, that it’s obviously fraud, seems incredibly naive. The simple answer is they update candidate totals in chunks.
Further, if someone was committing fraud, they could just add a few votes for other candidates to evade your detection. Your sniff test doesn’t pass my sniff test.
Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
#258This part seems incorrect: > There are strict laws regulating police and poll workers while the polls are open. Police are not allowed within 100 feet of the polling location, unless they're actively voting or there on official business at the request of the election board. Additionally, anyone working at the polls in an official capacity is not allowed to wear any clothing with political messaging. One of the office…
Speaking of not being allowed to enter a polling place wearing curtain clothes:
"Since Tuesday, she has become known as the “Topless Voter.”
The woman, who ripped off her T-shirt after objections that it was too political to wear inside the Exeter polls, said she has no regrets.
“I said, ‘Well then, can I vote naked?’ He turned to me and said, ‘If you want to.’ So I took off my shirt,” she said.
She said she kept on her mask because removing it would have been “unhealthy.”"
https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/voters/topless-vot...
Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
#259I'm as much of a technophile as any other HN reader, but I am continuously flummoxed that anyone makes use of the sort of electronic voting machines described in this article. This is mainly from the perspective that a lot of the redundancy and auditability of the system seemed to rely on a bunch of printers working perfectly. Paper ballots and a pencil/pen are still hugely more reliable and trustworthy, IMO.
I'm with you. To me electronic voting machines means you've given your democracy to the best hackers. "Hackerocracy"?
Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
#260I'm as much of a technophile as any other HN reader, but I am continuously flummoxed that anyone makes use of the sort of electronic voting machines described in this article. This is mainly from the perspective that a lot of the redundancy and auditability of the system seemed to rely on a bunch of printers working perfectly. Paper ballots and a pencil/pen are still hugely more reliable and trustworthy, IMO.
IME the physical issues I've seen are entirely operator/technician error.
I've really not seen any issues inside my wheelhouse. I feel for the devs having to codify abberant voting procedures.