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["Tanner Lovelace" <clubjuggler AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp AT pobox.com> wrote:
> Tanner was talking about the job of an election judge in Durham County.
>  They use optical scan ballots.  I suspect that the edge cases he
> refers to are things like ballots getting jammed in the machine, or
> explaining to people who aren't properly registered how the provisional
> ballots work, or things like that.  As the local polling place election
> judge, I doubt he is responsible for designing the system.  :-)

Provisional ballots are one of the big edge cases but even there it's not
too bad.  Thankfully I haven't had to deal with jammed machines, but
there are procedures for that too (there's a little slot below the machine
that we can open and place ballots in if the machine malfunctions.

Other interesting things include address changes (easy), curbside ballots
(easy, unless a former president completely takes up all your handicap
spots!!!, and then only harder because of walking further), precinct transfers
(harder, but not too bad).  Basically, anything outside the normal
ATV (authorization to vote) -> ballot -> counting machine process.
They're called "exceptions" and are what the majority of election official
training goes over.

Cheers,
Tanner
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