Got my voter protection assignment-I will be poll watcher at central counting office

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This is where all of the ballots are in effect counted. I have to be there before 7 PM and cannot leave and come back in like a normal poll watcher. The first early vote and vote by mail ballots will be tabulated by 7:30 or so and then we wait for voting centers to bring the disks with results. I was asked not to leave before midnight or when the ballots are tabulated.

I have not done this before. The good news is that i can safely ignore Kornacki all night.

[fierywoman]

1. Bless you for your service.

[SheltieLover]

2. Ty for serving!

[jmbar2]

3. I'm taking the last shift at my election office as an observer too!

Will miss Kornacki for part of the nite.

Thanks for volunteering!!!!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Thank you for volunteering

[jmbar2]

9. Doing it for stress relief

I can't just sit home and watch these returns without trying to do SOMEThing...

Let us know how it goes on your side.

[phoenix75]

4. Thank you!

👍Grateful for your service.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. I was going to be a boiler room captain but broke my glasses

I have been volunteering for voter protection since 2004 and have been running voter protection boiler rooms for many elections cycles.

I broke my glasses last week and I am using a pair that may be six or so years old. I have been blowing up documents on my computer but I am not comfortable doing this with the LBJ system. This will not require much reading.

My eyes need such corrections that it will take a while to get the new lenses.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

12. What's a boiler room?

[TexasTowelie]

6. Don't forget your cleaning supplies for the disks:

[MLAA]

7. Good luck!

[ananda]

10. Thank you!

!!!

[Sucha NastyWoman]

11. That's great!

I know you will do a great job for us. That is a really critical job.

Will be poll watching at an election site from 1-7. Pm.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. It was a boring night

I was at the central counting office for my county where the ballots are counted. The democratic appointed judge for ballot counting could not make it and there had been an attempt by the GOP to disrupt the ballot board. The asshole GOP party county chair tried to tell the ballot board that they could not start processing mail in ballot until election day because that is how TFG wanted done. The head election administrator showed him the law on how counting vote by mail ballots are to be counted and the idiot GOP chair claimed that the election code was written by Democrats (the Democratic party in Texas has not been in control of the Texas govt. since 1994).

There is a procedure for checking in machines that come in. They read the vote counts at one of four central locations and transmit this to the county. The scanner that counts the votes is then put into box and sealed. The election judges come to the county central office and turn in the sealed box and the machine that checks in voters is read to get a count of the number of voters who checked in.

I know the people in the election office and the lady who swore us in asked me about my children who have been election judges/clerks in the past. The process was going smoothly, and I was told that they did not expect to be finished unto 2 AM. I ended up leaving at 11 PM.

Boring is good.