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Oct. 21st, 2024 04:11 pmMy next feature article is due four weeks (28 days) from today. I will be spending nine of those days basically incommunicado in my work as an election judge.
(Note to people outside Maryland: "Election judge" is the fancy term this state uses for people who are paid a stipend to run the polling places. No law degree is necessary.)
Working as an election judge means working at least from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., with precious little time available for going online via phone. Toss in a nearly hour-long round-trip commute on the eight days that are early voting, and that's a long time to be away from my computer. (The early-voting site is only 8.2 miles from my house, but the drive is entirely over surface streets with lots of stoplights.)
Whatever I have, which isn't that much, I'm going to print out and bring with me, so that I can at least look at it subtly when I am not serving people directly (we're not supposed to sit there using our electronic devices).
Speaking of the election ... I am so incredibly nervous and stressed out over the possibility of an Orange Poopyhead victory. I have NO FREAKING IDEA how anyone could support someone so narcissistic and mentally unstable. I have NO FREAKING IDEA how the polls can be TIED, balanced on a knife's edge, however you want to describe it. Now, I read on some Substack page (linked from Facebook) that Republican-oriented pollsters are "flooding the zone" with results showing tRump surging ahead to make their later challenges to Harris victories seem more legitimate, but I can't find that Substack again. I am really hoping for millions of "shy Harris voters," but after 2016, I am scared shitless. Honestly, I don't think I will feel at ease about the election until I see Vice President Harris put her left hand on a Bible and raise her right hand.
I don't put anything past the tRump authoritarians. Heck, if I wasn't in one of the most Democratic congressional districts in the entire nation, I probably wouldn't work as an election judge. With my unusual name, I am just too easy to find online. I don't want to spend the rest of my life (such as it is) dodging death threats, doxxers, swatters, and who knows what else.
(Note to people outside Maryland: "Election judge" is the fancy term this state uses for people who are paid a stipend to run the polling places. No law degree is necessary.)
Working as an election judge means working at least from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., with precious little time available for going online via phone. Toss in a nearly hour-long round-trip commute on the eight days that are early voting, and that's a long time to be away from my computer. (The early-voting site is only 8.2 miles from my house, but the drive is entirely over surface streets with lots of stoplights.)
Whatever I have, which isn't that much, I'm going to print out and bring with me, so that I can at least look at it subtly when I am not serving people directly (we're not supposed to sit there using our electronic devices).
Speaking of the election ... I am so incredibly nervous and stressed out over the possibility of an Orange Poopyhead victory. I have NO FREAKING IDEA how anyone could support someone so narcissistic and mentally unstable. I have NO FREAKING IDEA how the polls can be TIED, balanced on a knife's edge, however you want to describe it. Now, I read on some Substack page (linked from Facebook) that Republican-oriented pollsters are "flooding the zone" with results showing tRump surging ahead to make their later challenges to Harris victories seem more legitimate, but I can't find that Substack again. I am really hoping for millions of "shy Harris voters," but after 2016, I am scared shitless. Honestly, I don't think I will feel at ease about the election until I see Vice President Harris put her left hand on a Bible and raise her right hand.
I don't put anything past the tRump authoritarians. Heck, if I wasn't in one of the most Democratic congressional districts in the entire nation, I probably wouldn't work as an election judge. With my unusual name, I am just too easy to find online. I don't want to spend the rest of my life (such as it is) dodging death threats, doxxers, swatters, and who knows what else.
