voters information rights

Undertoad · 03-11-2003, 12:10 PM

There is no way to do that completely. The voting process varies greatly from state to state.

Where you live in PA, you can almost certainly take all the steps you need to guarantee your own poll's accuracy, by requesting to the local authorities that you want to be a "poll watcher". That way you can watch the counting process and help verify that the numbers they report are the numbers that come out of the machines and the absentee ballots.

They may tell you to pound sand, but if you approach your local committeeperson and volunteer to watch on behalf of a candidate, they probably won't.

Alternately, in PA you can ask whether there are enough election officials in your district and possibly run for Judge of Elections or Inspector of Elections. Each polling place has one of the former and two of the latter. The latter are Majority and Minority, where Majority is in the political party in charge of the county, and Minority is anyone else. The up side is that you get paid a nominal amount. The down side is that you have to sit at the polls all day and verify signatures and stuff.

03-11-2003, 12:10 PM	#2
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	There is no way to do that completely. The voting process varies greatly from state to state. Where you live in PA, you can almost certainly take all the steps you need to guarantee your own poll's accuracy, by requesting to the local authorities that you want to be a "poll watcher". That way you can watch the counting process and help verify that the numbers they report are the numbers that come out of the machines and the absentee ballots. They may tell you to pound sand, but if you approach your local committeeperson and volunteer to watch on behalf of a candidate, they probably won't. Alternately, in PA you can ask whether there are enough election officials in your district and possibly run for Judge of Elections or Inspector of Elections. Each polling place has one of the former and two of the latter. The latter are Majority and Minority, where Majority is in the political party in charge of the county, and Minority is anyone else. The up side is that you get paid a nominal amount. The down side is that you have to sit at the polls all day and verify signatures and stuff.

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