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Election volunteer/worker/observer what's the weirdest stuff you've seen during election day ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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All the mess around the US elections make me think : What are weird stuff you've seen occurring during election days no matter whether it's incident, crazy voters/questions or even straight-up fraud ?

Also thanks to all of you who volunteer to run/observe an election, you're keeping your country democracy alive.

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[–] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Weirdest I've seen was that voter who comes to his voting office, not to vote but to insult The president, The mayor, the volunteer and staff present, and even some of the voters we spent like 5 minutes trying to de-escalate and negotiate Please either leave or vote, but stop insulting everyone and it's finally when the voting office chairwoman took her phone to call the cops that this guy went away. (Thanks for the extra paperwork, because event though the cops didn't have to physically remove a person out of the voting station, we know had to describe the incident in the report, at least it was a consensual decision for every official present)

On more banal stuff I've seen that tall/large gentleman on crutches who put the voting booth down when trying to enter inside.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

In MA, when I worked the polls in 2020, they had a cop on duty in the polling location the whole day to deal with any yahoos like that. To be clear, that’s ALL they’re there for - they’re otherwise completely uninvolved with the administering of the election, and the operation of the polling location. Iirc the guy was just reading a book most of the time. I admit I’m somewhat surprised more jurisdictions don’t have some sort of policy like that. At the same time, I’m sure it would be abused by police forces in some parts of the country.