Monday, April 07, 2025
Giant St. John's Wort seed pods
I got a call from Town Clerk Chris this afternoon. She asked if Tina H. voted in this last election. I have to admit I don't know Tina H. by sight so I couldn't say. Chris went on to explain that she had signed the poll book but there was no number next to her name. When someone comes to vote, they show photo ID, and sign the county's copy of the poll book. The poll worker has a sheet of sticky numbers and they take the next number available and place it in the poll book next to her name. Next to that poll worker is another poll worker who also looks at the ID and takes the next number from his sheet of sticky numbers and places it by the name in the municipality's copy of the poll book (no need for voter to sign this one). Quite often during an election day, I check that both poll books are on the same number which matches the number of voters shown on the voting machine. When the polls close, we physically count all of the ballots cast which should add up to the last number in both poll books and the number on the machine. I said I'd meet Chris at the Town Hall. All the numbers had matched last election so there was some simple reason why there was no number next to Tina's name. I figured the sticky number had just adhered to something else or fallen off somehow from the County's poll book but when we checked the poll book we keep at the Town Hall there was no number next to Tina's name in that one either. Chris and I were about to go through all of the voter's numbers when I noticed the bottom of the first supplemental sheet had Tina's husband's name. Duh! I turned the page and there was Tina's name w/ a sticky number next to it. I remembered that Tina and her husband came in and she had signed the poll book before her husband brought up that they had moved. They were still in the town but the address on the poll book was no longer correct. I had them both reregister which means their info is written into the back of the poll book on the supplemental pages. Chris called the County Clerk's office and explained where they could find the number. The county clerk's assistant chastised me (mildly) for not explaining the issue on the Inspector's Statement. (Actually, I thought I had made a note of it in the Inspector's Statement but I didn't mention Tina had signed in two different places.) Either way, it means that even after the municipality submits paperwork and the county does a Board of Canvass, there are still more checks on all of that election paperwork. Anyone who still claims elections are rigged should be forced to sit in the belly of the tabulator machine and hit in the face by each ballot as it is cast. Dante's nine circles of Hell has nothing on me.
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