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soc_puppet) wrote2024-07-20 10:57 pm
soc_puppet) wrote2024-07-20 10:57 pm
The Democratic Process
Just submitted my application to be a poll worker! In addition to Voting Day Proper, I said I would be interested in working at Satellite locations for early voting, working Absentee Ballots, and at Health Care Facilities, helping people there vote.
My biggest concern right now is for regular voting locations and possible early voting locations, because I'm still masking in public; since I'm a registered Democrat and have volunteered to go anywhere in our relatively blue county, I may end up in a more red area and get some shit over that. (Hell, even if I'm in a more blue area, I may still get some shit, but probably less of it.) I hope I can work something out with my fellow poll workers, if that's the case. (Pretty sure it shouldn't be a problem for working with absentee ballots, and if there's anyone who complains about me wearing a mask at health care facilities, I will boggle at their ignorance.)
My second biggest concern is remembering to check the email address I signed up with 😅 It's not one I check as often as I probably should.
My biggest concern right now is for regular voting locations and possible early voting locations, because I'm still masking in public; since I'm a registered Democrat and have volunteered to go anywhere in our relatively blue county, I may end up in a more red area and get some shit over that. (Hell, even if I'm in a more blue area, I may still get some shit, but probably less of it.) I hope I can work something out with my fellow poll workers, if that's the case. (Pretty sure it shouldn't be a problem for working with absentee ballots, and if there's anyone who complains about me wearing a mask at health care facilities, I will boggle at their ignorance.)
My second biggest concern is remembering to check the email address I signed up with 😅 It's not one I check as often as I probably should.
Re: It's both mundane and thrilling!
Three hours off to vote -> My amazed face.
Wisconsin also continues with paper ballots: they're just more (ac)countable than those unreliable sparky bits. (Electrons, I mean electrons.)
Working con registration is much harder than working at the polls: nobody's in a hurry.
Re: It's both mundane and thrilling!
Honestly, from what I remember, everyone at AnimeIowa was just happy to be there in general; it probably helped that, after that first disastrous year, Registration opened a good three or four hours before any panels did, and even when we got the afternoon rush, by that time we were working like a well oiled machine and got people through the line right quick. We recently added Thursday badge pickup as well, for anyone who pre-registered. So for the first few hours, not a lot of people are in that much of a hurry (nothing to do yet!), and then for the later hours, we tended to get through longer lines in one heck of a hurry ourselves! I used to try to recruit volunteers and staffers to Registration with this schpeal: "It's the most rested and cleanest you'll probably see most of these people all weekend, they're super excited and happy to be there (so probably won't give you a hard time), and you get to sit down for most of it!"
Re: It's both mundane and thrilling!
It's the most rested and cleanest you'll probably see most of these people
ha ha ha!
When I started WisCon concom, I remember some folks taking pride in how underslept and over-caffeinated members would become over the long weekend. Weird, now that I think of it, or maybe just age: under slept ≠fun for me anymore.