New blog post: “Voting: The Role of Process”: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2024-11/2024-11-03.html
(Aside: the standard voice-to-text software on my Mac variously rendered “poll worker” as “pool worker”, “Paul worker”, “coworker”, and—my favorite—“pole worker”.)
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@SteveBellovin I encountered a similar situation last year: https://www.facebook.com/craig.stuntz/posts/pfbid0YxXnWLkgrAsCJjSrPz2Cgcb8zgWKNzbSnyQP693WbVjeGyXmY12oKmmFEs6A7mCdl
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@SteveBellovin Pole worker as in firehouse or as in bar?
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@oclsc Good question…
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@SteveBellovin As a poll worker, I too encountered a confused-family-member-already-voted situation, and (after consulting the precinct supervisor) let this scared first-time-voter cast a ballot. Also, I gave her my card and assured her I'd testify on her behalf if somebody later claimed she had voted illegally. There's too much litigation replacing common sense.
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@n2vi @SteveBellovin I did not have that situation when I was working at a precinct. Here in California there is at least a system for dealing with confusion about mail-in ballots. When a voter brought in an unvoted mail-in ballot or was confused we could call a special phone number that could tell us if that person's ballot had been cast and, if not, we could create a block that would cause the precinct-voted ballot to supersede the not-yet-counted mail-in ballot from that person. The system worked rather smoothly.
California ballots can be confusing - there are versions in dozens of languages and in the primaries there are usually versions for each party, an for independents, etc etc. Making sure each primary voter got the correct ballot was a significant part of our job.
(California also allows on-site/same-day registration with casting of a provisional - that can take a fair amount of work And if I remember correctly, any voter can vote in any precinct in the state, but I never handled that.)
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