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mallorys_cameraSo-o, I showed up at the Hyde Park Town Hall at 5 am this morning, and whaddiya know—they didn’t need me.
Which was fine with me.
Working the election wasn’t something I wanted to do.
It’s something I think is important. So, if nobody else was gonna step up to bat, then I guessed I oughta.
It would have been nice, of course, if they’d figured out they didn’t need me yesterday. There were things I passed up yesterday because of today’s 4 am wake-up call.
And they made me wait around till 7 am for the Rambling Democrat, who wanders from polling place to polling place throughout the day. She had to make three phone calls to that person who’d wanted to share the horror of email HTML links with me before that person was capable of giving her a cohesive answer.
“Can you go to a polling place in Fishkill?” the Rambling Democrat asked.
Twenty miles away?
No, I could not go to a polling place in Fishkill.
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I will say this experience has made a tad more sympathetic toward 2020 election deniers.
Because the people in charge of running elections are very disorganized (to say the least), and it is no longer inconceivable to me that scads and scads of irregularities may have taken place on their watch.
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Also, they did not have a lottery drawing last night!
There were “technical issues” with security protocols.
I’m gonna have to wait till God knows when to be rich beyond my wildest dreams of avarice.
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A full eclipse of the moon was just reaching totality as I drove to the Hyde Park Town Hall.
It was pretty spectacular even on an iPhone camera:
Which was fine with me.
Working the election wasn’t something I wanted to do.
It’s something I think is important. So, if nobody else was gonna step up to bat, then I guessed I oughta.
It would have been nice, of course, if they’d figured out they didn’t need me yesterday. There were things I passed up yesterday because of today’s 4 am wake-up call.
And they made me wait around till 7 am for the Rambling Democrat, who wanders from polling place to polling place throughout the day. She had to make three phone calls to that person who’d wanted to share the horror of email HTML links with me before that person was capable of giving her a cohesive answer.
“Can you go to a polling place in Fishkill?” the Rambling Democrat asked.
Twenty miles away?
No, I could not go to a polling place in Fishkill.
###
I will say this experience has made a tad more sympathetic toward 2020 election deniers.
Because the people in charge of running elections are very disorganized (to say the least), and it is no longer inconceivable to me that scads and scads of irregularities may have taken place on their watch.
###
Also, they did not have a lottery drawing last night!
There were “technical issues” with security protocols.
I’m gonna have to wait till God knows when to be rich beyond my wildest dreams of avarice.
###
A full eclipse of the moon was just reaching totality as I drove to the Hyde Park Town Hall.
It was pretty spectacular even on an iPhone camera:
