I applied to be a Pollworker

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I'm a poll worker.

It's more than processing voters.

We have to set up and put away the voting machines very carefully, documenting everything.

We have to accommodate "challengers," that is, appointed individuals who may challenge certain voters for irregularities, such as they moved out of the district, etc.

We have to guide voters for provisional voting if there appears to be an error, e.g., their address, records show they've received a mailed ballot, etc.

We have to issue emergency paper ballots if the machines go down. (It happened the first 15 minutes of voting last Tuesday.)

We have to prevent voters from going into the polls with campaign literature which they may have received 100 feet outside the location of voting.

We have to periodically look to make sure that campaigns are in fact 100 feet away from the polling place.

We have to read out the results to the campaigns at the end of the night.

But it's also exciting to see the enthusiasm and the passion of the voters.