Ivan
Your summary is only partially correct.
1.
Poll watchers may represent candidates and issues committees as
well.
2.
Poll watchers may concern themselves with election integrity at
every phase of the election including precincts, early voting locations, absentee
ballot processing. This includes ballot preparation, production,
issuance, qualification, counting and reporting.
I hope that at least some of the trainees will focus on the quality
of the election.
Al
Al Kolwicz
Colorado Voter Group
2867 Tincup Circle
Boulder, CO 80305
303-494-1540
AlKolwicz@xxxxxxxxx
www.ColoradoVoterGroup.org
www.coloradovotergroup.blogspot.com
From: Ivan Meek
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Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 10:06 PM
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Subject: Re: poll worker training tomorrow (Saturday)
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!
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Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 17,
2008 2:25 PM
Subject: poll worker training
tomorrow (Saturday)
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.
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
2PM tomorrow at 1350 Indepenence St, Lakewood, suite
201.(For future trainings, call Jennifer at 303-486-2008.)