The help is needed with contested ballots -- ie, anything that can't be automatically read by the scanning equipment. My understanding is that there are more of those than originally believed because of a problem with the printing on one or more of the batches. Also, as I understand it, in order to resolve a contested ballot you must have one Dem and one Rep available. So, in answer to your question, we're raising Dem volunteers through clerkhelp.
On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 10:58:19 -0700, Lou Puls <lpuls@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>Does this mean ONLY Democrats are allowed to help, or that onlyDemocrats are being signed up thru clerkhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx? I was assigned to be an election judge to precincts short of "Unaffiliated" registrants - surely the same logic applies to counting?
Hmmm ... still not at all clear to me. If each available D is matched with an available R, can the U's help out? Lou
This is from the Democratic Party, hence the "D" requirement. I don't know the County policy, but I heard that Donetta or Drew Durham had ruled that only Ds and Rs would be allowed to serve as poll watchers (or something like that, I didn't see the exact text).
I recall seeing the same interpretation/ruling/dictat, and if so it's one more symptom of the corporatization of our party system (such as excluding qualified independent candidates from debates) with the purpose of perpetuating the corporate-controlled two-party disease that is killing our representative "democratic" republic. Lou
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein