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LetMyPeopleVote

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17. It was a boring night
Wed Nov 9, 2022, 10:40 AM
Nov 2022

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.

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