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In fact, today is the 40th birthday of my cousin Tim's daughter! Tim and his wife have been parents for four decades!
Monday night I went for election judge training. I had waffled on whether to sign up, because of the pandemic, but ultimately I came down on the side of wanting to help a fair election take place. This is truly something that's bigger than I am. After all, my father volunteered for the military right after Pearl Harbor. He had no living parents and no kids (yet), so what did he have to lose, right? Serving as an election judge might not be the same as volunteering to take a bullet for my country, but there is still some risk, even though the state will provide us with PPE (masks, gloves, face shields, hand sanitizer).
Most of my experience has been as a provisional ballot judge, and that's what I have been trained for this time around, too. I think we provisional judges are going to be WAY busier than in "normal" election times, because so many people will send in their absentee ballot applications in the mail and then never receive them. Damn Governor Hogan for not just sending ballots out to everyone. Especially damn Drumpus for screwing with the Postal Service, denigrating mail-in voting, and urging people to vote twice.
Monday night I went for election judge training. I had waffled on whether to sign up, because of the pandemic, but ultimately I came down on the side of wanting to help a fair election take place. This is truly something that's bigger than I am. After all, my father volunteered for the military right after Pearl Harbor. He had no living parents and no kids (yet), so what did he have to lose, right? Serving as an election judge might not be the same as volunteering to take a bullet for my country, but there is still some risk, even though the state will provide us with PPE (masks, gloves, face shields, hand sanitizer).
Most of my experience has been as a provisional ballot judge, and that's what I have been trained for this time around, too. I think we provisional judges are going to be WAY busier than in "normal" election times, because so many people will send in their absentee ballot applications in the mail and then never receive them. Damn Governor Hogan for not just sending ballots out to everyone. Especially damn Drumpus for screwing with the Postal Service, denigrating mail-in voting, and urging people to vote twice.
