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CatumEntanglement t1_ivm18e8 wrote

Finished up volunteering as a poll worker at the worcester tech precinct for most of the day! Good amount of people, especially younger ones! Good amount of first time voters who just turned 18 and really wanted to do it in person.

If you need to bring your kids along, that's totally fine! In fact all the little kids I saw loved seeing the process of voting. In fact right now the average time is less than 10min to check in a fill out those ballot bubbles! So go now!

Democracy dies in darkness....so vote!!

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thedecentshepherd OP t1_ivm26zj wrote

Thanks for helping out! It's a lot of work to run an election, even if it's "just" the midterms

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CatumEntanglement t1_ivm3hy1 wrote

SO many questions from people too...even though the whole process is straight forward...people are in a hurry and stressed! Especially since many online sites that give you your ballot... didn't have question 5 on it. Lots of people were like "what is this one" and we said it's totally fine to take out your phone and look up ballot questions. A lot of people thought phones were not allowed. They aren't...if you're using them to record people and be harassing about it.

It was fun. I was the youngest volunteer there by at least 30yrs. Got to hear funny stories from the old ladies. Our security officer had a K9, who was a very sweet German shepard. Highly recommend volunteering to be a poll worker. I got into it because covid in 2020, as older workers were hesitant to volunteer because they were at higher risk. Kept at it since. More volunteering means more precincts can be open... so it increases voting access.

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NativeSon508 t1_ivnhe9x wrote

I always made it a point to bring my kids to vote with me. I let them fill out the ballot. It’ll be their turn someday. Maybe someday your kid’s bane will be in the ballot… maybe that’s not such a good thing though. I dunno

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CatumEntanglement t1_ivnhh2d wrote

>Maybe someday your kid’s bane will be in the ballot… maybe that’s not such a good thing though. I dunno

What does this mean?

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NativeSon508 t1_ivqnab0 wrote

Means it could be a good thing or a bad thing

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CatumEntanglement t1_ivqnqrp wrote

Do you think you're talking about my kids? You are super weird in your assumptions.

Hate to break it to you, but there are none. And will never be any. So you can rest easy.

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