All,
FYI,
1. In the Election Judge training session I attended October 8, nothing was
said about
the Ballot Box Judge calling out the voter's name when
the voter came to put the
ballot into the Ballot Box. I recall that in past
elections I did hear the Ballot Box Judge
do this. After reading this email, I double checked the
General Election manual, and
this time round there was not any specific requirement
for the judge to do anything
except ask the voter's name. I will ask the Boulder
County Clerk's training personnel
about this to get it clarified and pass on the
information as soon as I get it.
2. In the Election Judge training that I have received (for the
General Election
as Supply Judge and for the Primary and Early
Voting as Election
Judge), the judges in Boulder County are required to
follow the county election
manual and call the Hotline with any questions at all.
The judges are not trained in the
specific laws. So, I guess if any county's election
officials do not interpret the state
election laws correctly, their misconceptions could be
passed on to the judges.
3. In Boulder County the voters get a two part (white top
page, yellow carbon bottom page)
sign in slip as soon as they come to the polling
place Sign in table. This slip includes voter name and
signature, both of which the
voter fills in. The Poll Book judge verifies the voter's
registration and fills in the ballot
style and precinct number. The top page of the sign in slip is
white and is not given to
any media or poll watcher. The bottom page is yellow and the
poll watchers are allowed
to handle this to read voter names. The poll watcher cannot
keep the yellow page however.
4. I'd suggest that poll 'watchers' are the folks who come in to observe
the voting process.
Poll 'watchers' are not poll 'workers', and are not allowed to
go behind the election
judges' tables or do anything at all in the voting
process.
Cheers,
Catherine Lo
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 6:52
AM
Subject: RE: poll worker training
tomorrow (Saturday)
1-7-304. Manner of
voting.
(2) Each eligible elector who has completed the ballot
and is ready to vote
shall then leave the voting booth and approach the
election judges having
charge of the ballot box. The elector shall give his
or her name to one of
the election judges, who shall clearly and audibly
announce the name in a
loud and distinct tone of voice.
Al
Kolwicz
Colorado Voter Group
2867 Tincup Circle
Boulder, CO
80305
303-494-1540
AlKolwicz@xxxxxxxxx
www.ColoradoVoterGroup.org
www.coloradovotergroup.blogspot.com
-----Original
Message-----
From: Neal McBurnett [mailto:neal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:
Friday, October 17, 2008 11:38 PM
To: Mary Eberle
Cc: Ivan Meek; Margit
Johansson; Deb Adams; Harvie Branscomb; Geof Cahoon;
David Larson; angielayton@xxxxxxxx; joseph richey;
CFVI Attendees; Citizens
for Verifiable Voting; Richard Bowles; Dr. Charles
E. Corry; AlKolwicz;
Barbara Dungey; Tom Morris; Cliff West; Sunny Maynard;
joel Leventhal;
Laurie Bretz; Catherine Lo; Dan Leftwich; Sunny
Maynard
Subject: Re: poll worker training tomorrow (Saturday)
More
surprising and worrysome to me from what Michael Scarpello said
today was
that in Denver they do not have an election judge publicly
announce the
name of the voter. In Boulder we always did that, and I
understood it
was so that neighbors, pollwatcher, etc would be able to
tell if there was
any question of identity. It always seemed
appropriate to me and a
nice way to be proud of being there.
I don't know what the Colorado law or
rules say about it. What is
Boulder doing this year?
Neal
McBurnett
http://neal.mcburnett.org/
On
Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:22:56PM -0600, Mary Eberle wrote:
> Dear
CFVIers,
>
> A curious thing that I learned today while
interviewing Denver Elections
> Director Michael Scarpello is that the
poll watchers in Denver precincts
> will not be given voters' names.
They will be given the voter's voter
> number (hand transcribed onto a
list by an election judge), which they
> will have to take outside the
polling place and call to someone who can
> look up the number on a Web
site, correlate the number with a name, and
> thus create a list of
people who have voted in that precinct.
>
> Boulder County gives
the voter's name directly to the poll watcher via a
> sign-in sheet
(not the poll book itself).
>
> Mary
>
> Ivan Meek
wrote:
> >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
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message
----- *From:* Margit Johansson
> ><mailto:margitjo@xxxxxxxxx> *To:* Deb
Adams
> ><mailto:debsueadams@xxxxxxxxxxx> ;
Harvie Branscomb
> ><mailto:harvie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ; Geof
Cahoon
> ><mailto:gcahoon@xxxxxxxxx> ; David
Larson
> ><mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ; angielayton@xxxxxxxx
>
><mailto:angielayton@xxxxxxxx> ; Ivan
Meek
> ><mailto:ivan.meek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
; joseph richey
> ><mailto:richey80304@xxxxxxxxx> ;
Mary Eberle
> ><mailto:m.eberle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ;
Cliff West
> ><mailto:clifwest@xxxxxxxxxxx> ; Tom
Morris <mailto:Tmmco1@xxxxxxx> ;
> >Dan
Leftwich <mailto:dleftwich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
; CFVI Attendees
> ><mailto:attendees@xxxxxxx> ; Citizens
for Verifiable Voting
> ><mailto:cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
; amaynard_1@xxxxxxxx
> ><mailto:amaynard_1@xxxxxxxx> ; Richard
Bowles
> ><mailto:rjb3445@xxxxxxxxxxx> ; Dr.
Charles E. Corry
> ><mailto:ccorry@xxxxxxxx> ; AlKolwicz
<mailto:alkolwicz@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>*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
> ><mailto:margitjo@xxxxxxxxx>