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Or it could look like I actually didn’t do my job and
test the card punchers before laying them out for voters; or that I ignored a
voter who complained. I did look at ballots. All judges did back then. We
opened the ballot box; pulled out all the ballots; looked for spoiled ballots
and write-ins. The spoiled and write-ins were separated from the other ballots.
All were put in the security box and padlocked, but not before counting all of
the ballots and subtracted from the total amount of ballots that were handed to
the supply judge the night before. Ballots cast plus ballots plus ballot
spoiled had to equal number of ballots give to supply judge. If it didn’t then
you started strip searching your fellow judges. I miss the old days. Lots of
naked fun. Back in the days of punch cards a judge wrote down the
sequence number on the blue slip with the voters name. People who think that
judges couldn’t track a ballot back to a voter are living on cloud nine. It could
be done then, it can be done now. I respect the wishes of those that want their ballots
to be secret. I just don’t happen to be one of those people. This country didn’t
start with secret ballots, it is something that started at the end of the civil
war. I couldn’t care less who knows how I voted. If I can remember how I voted
and you ask me, I will tell you. There is no way that anyone can intimidate me
to vote one way; change my vote; or pay me to vote; etc. Paul Tiger - have gun, will vote -----Original
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were often misaligned. Not sure why Linda would know or not know this, because
when supply judges would see it, they were pulled from service. In the last few
years that I was a supply judge I just started repairing them at the precinct.
It wasn’t hard to fix, but it also wasn’t hard for them to get knocked out of
alignment either. They were simply old and worn. |