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  Moggy, 13 Feb 2004 @ 11:54am

  
  

  Old-style and seniors are an election nightmare!!

  I'm in charge of an election precinct in my city -- possibly the only non-senior citizen doing the task in the area, based on who showed up at the training session. I *wish* we'd go to electronic; the old paper method is a bureaucratic nightmare, and involves more potential (or real) mishaps than anybody not working the precincts can imagine. There's no level of computer error that can match the level of the problems we ran into, and there's no degree of electronic corruption that makes up for what careful volunteers could easily get away with.
  
  The fact that we rely on (often extremely old) seniors without screening them to make sure they're not senile or seriously prejudiced is an additional problem. One of the two that was on my team last time was so negligent (possible dementia) that I spent most of my time "cleaning up" the havoc he caused. He also insulted quite a few voters with horrendous racist/misogynistic/homophobic comments, as if almost nullifying several hundred votes wasn't enough.

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