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I became an election judge supervisor back when Florida
Posted on: May 11, 2023 at 18:18:50 CT
JeffB MU
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had the election chad controversy. I was curious as to whether election fraud was possible on a scale that could change an election.
I came to the conclusion that election judges at a polling place were unlikely to do anything nefarious beyond perhaps occasionally allowing a person to vote who shouldn't. But hard to tell if anything higher up the line could change things on a much larger scale. I suspected that could possibly be the case, but beyond anything I could tell at the very local level.
I skipped a number of elections after that until they were begging for help. We had the option for electronic of paper ballots then. The election had a number of people complaining that the machine changed their votes between when they selected them and when they got to the end and were to verify their choices. I'm not sure if it was non-partisan, but I remember one of the people complaining was a union guy, so assume the machine had changed his choice(s) to Republican at the end. We reported the problem to those above us, but there was really nothing we could do that election at the poll. Others complained of that problem at other polling places as well.
I was glad when we went to the paper ballots. I was also happy when they went to photo IDs. I worked in Ferguson the last few elections and no one complained about having a photo ID.
When we went through a training class a few elections before that a question about verifying identity came up. I was surprised at the answer so I asked whether we should say or do anything if a discrepancy was blatantly obvious. eg. a drivers license showed a 25 year old 7'1" black man who weighed 350 lbs and the person presenting it was a white 5'2" woman who weighed about 80 lbs, had white hair and looked to be about 75 yrs old. The answer was that it was none of our business, just process them and give them a ballot.
I still think that would be very small numbers of possible fraudulent votes, but I think it would still be very possible for someone at a higher level to have corrupted counting software that could cause fraud at an election changing pace.
I came to the conclusion that election judges at a polling place were unlikely to do anything nefarious beyond perhaps occasionally allowing a person to vote who shouldn't. But hard to tell if anything higher up the line could change things on a much larger scale. I suspected that could possibly be the case, but beyond anything I could tell at the very local level.
I skipped a number of elections after that until they were begging for help. We had the option for electronic of paper ballots then. The election had a number of people complaining that the machine changed their votes between when they selected them and when they got to the end and were to verify their choices. I'm not sure if it was non-partisan, but I remember one of the people complaining was a union guy, so assume the machine had changed his choice(s) to Republican at the end. We reported the problem to those above us, but there was really nothing we could do that election at the poll. Others complained of that problem at other polling places as well.
I was glad when we went to the paper ballots. I was also happy when they went to photo IDs. I worked in Ferguson the last few elections and no one complained about having a photo ID.
When we went through a training class a few elections before that a question about verifying identity came up. I was surprised at the answer so I asked whether we should say or do anything if a discrepancy was blatantly obvious. eg. a drivers license showed a 25 year old 7'1" black man who weighed 350 lbs and the person presenting it was a white 5'2" woman who weighed about 80 lbs, had white hair and looked to be about 75 yrs old. The answer was that it was none of our business, just process them and give them a ballot.
I still think that would be very small numbers of possible fraudulent votes, but I think it would still be very possible for someone at a higher level to have corrupted counting software that could cause fraud at an election changing pace.
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I became an election judge supervisor back when Florida - JeffB MU - 5/11 18:18:50