Hi All,
For those of you that are new to poll watching, I want to make sure
you all aware that poll watchers are basically representing their
political party and that their obligations are fundamentally set by
the party. In addition to looking for problems, poll watchers for
the Democratic Party are usually expected to record the names of the
voters that have voted and transfer that information to the local
headquarters. They then cull the list to voters that have not already
voted. The intent is to call and "get out the vote" for those
remaining as the election day comes to a close. I don't think it
works but the party feels it is important.
You MUST be a registered member of the party you are representing to
be a poll watcher. No Unaffiliateds. There is only one poll
watcher allowed in each polling place for each party. In the past, I
have never seen a Republican poll watcher at any of my polling places
but then I have not strayed outside of Boulder County.
The Democrats have, in the past, had a number to call to resolve
issues and to, if necessary, a lawyer to call if the law is being
violated. I suspect you will find most of the problems to not be
willful but will be because the election judges don't know the law
but feel that because of their tenure that they are the law. It is
common for election judges to give poll watchers grief for various
reasons.
The depth of involvement of the Obama campaign is unpresentented. I
will not be surprised if they have ideas for poll watching too.
Good luck to all of you who choose to do this task!
-ivan
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*Sent:* Friday, October 17, 2008 2:25 PM *Subject:* poll worker
training tomorrow (Saturday)
Hi All,
Did you know that according to the SOS election Rules (as amended
7/11/08), you can be a poll watcher in any Colorado county, not just
your own? See page 18, 8.1.2. <http://8.1.2./>
Tomorrow (Saturday) there are *poll watcher trainings* for both Dems
and Reps.
*Dems*: at state headquarters in Denver at 777 Santa Fe Drive, there
is poll watcher training from *1-3 PM Saturday, October 18th. * The
address is: 777 Sante Fe Drive, Denver. It's okay if you haven't
decided where you will poll watch yet.
*Reps:* There are poll watcher trainings at: 10AM at 5950 S. willow
Drive, suite 306 in Greenwood Village AND 2PM tomorrow at 1350
Indepenence St, Lakewood, suite 201.(For future trainings, call
Jennifer at 303-486-2008.)
Margit
Margit Johansson 303-442-1668/ margitjo@xxxxxxxxx
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