November 8th
Oct. 21st, 2005 13:19![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
torquillMy mom got tapped for the Special Election, as a voting precinct inspector. I didn't.
I didn't hear anything from the Elections Department, in fact, until my mom said that they were still running ads in the paper looking for clerks. So I called them up and said I'd be willing to work as a clerk, if they didn't want me running the precinct. They said okay, and asked where I'd be willing to go. Oh, out as far as Lafayette/Orinda/Antioch.
They called back this morning to say that I had been assigned as an inspector to a precinct in Antioch. Yay! I get to set up the nifty new ballot-counting machine!
I really like working elections. God knows why, as the day runs from 6am to 9 or 10pm, and I vividly remember the recall election where we had a 45-minute wait for something like four full hours -- no breaks, no time to catch my breath. Still, it pays okay, and my love of procedure makes things run smoothly. And voting is important. Well worth missing OChem for a day.
I didn't hear anything from the Elections Department, in fact, until my mom said that they were still running ads in the paper looking for clerks. So I called them up and said I'd be willing to work as a clerk, if they didn't want me running the precinct. They said okay, and asked where I'd be willing to go. Oh, out as far as Lafayette/Orinda/Antioch.
They called back this morning to say that I had been assigned as an inspector to a precinct in Antioch. Yay! I get to set up the nifty new ballot-counting machine!
I really like working elections. God knows why, as the day runs from 6am to 9 or 10pm, and I vividly remember the recall election where we had a 45-minute wait for something like four full hours -- no breaks, no time to catch my breath. Still, it pays okay, and my love of procedure makes things run smoothly. And voting is important. Well worth missing OChem for a day.
