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OT: American Politics

Wayward DP said:
you may want to start paying attention to percentages. % of votes counted, and % of votes recorded compared to previous elections. will add some perspective to unhelpful and incomplete data that you want to rely on/repost.
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I do pay attention to those when I see them.
 
UWHabs said:
I don't know what it's like in the US, but in Canada I know most local polling places are essentially staffed by retired people and volunteer workers. Not necessarily the highest talent levels at play in many cases. A lot of times these errors are mistakes made by the local staff, nothing at all related to any other part of the process.
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I've run polling stations. Even having to get a replacement machine brought in. And yes the average age of poll workers is probably 75.

The key is... there are always contingency plans.
 
worm said:
I've run polling stations. Even having to get a replacement machine brought in. And yes the average age of poll workers is probably 75.

The key is... there are always contingency plans.
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i might look into doing this at some point. was it an ok experience?
 
worm said:
I've run polling stations. Even having to get a replacement machine brought in. And yes the average age of poll workers is probably 75.

The key is... there are always contingency plans.
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Oh yeah, it may take a while, sometimes they have to extend the deadlines, etc... Poll workers do a great job on the whole, a pretty thankless job. But they're humans who don't do this and who tend to have very little training, so stuff happens.
 
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