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amatt - 2006-11-08 11:10:50
I was standing outside at about 10:15 last night totally diggin' the mist. It was just rolling along. It would clear for a brief moment and then come rolling back. Yeah!
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Erich K - 2006-11-08 11:20:44
That was the mighty mist of democracy!
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Greg - 2006-11-08 11:38:27
There are rumors that Lex Luthor created a giant fog machine for Halliburton to hide polling places in Democratic Districts!
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Bob - 2006-11-08 11:42:42
Nah, that was Josore Looberman.
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Tom Ronca - 2006-11-08 12:29:21
Ahh, "Columbo" -- did you ever see the one where Patrick McGoohan basically plays the same shadowy Government Operative he played in "The Prisoner"? It's another episode that tinkers with the genre formula a bit.
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Baby Party - 2006-11-09 10:31:23
Anyone can be a poll worker, though typically you need to be a registered voter, or at least a US citizen. Some municipalities pay a small stipend. Most of them are retirees, because they tend to be available in the daytime. Many of them are active in local party politics. I read recently that the average pollworker is 72 years old!
I was a pollwatcher once, when my brother ran for office in 1988. First, I handed out campaign literature all day for my brother; then, when the poll closed, I was let inside, along with a Republican observer, to watch as the back of the machine was opened, and the votes were counted. Then we each called our respective campaign headquarters to report the tallies. There were also pollwatchers from local media calling in numbers. That's how my brother's campaign knew he'd lost before it was announced on TV. I also worked for the local paper one year, taking those pollwatcher calls, writing them down on a legal pad (this was in the Dark Ages). I think they paid me 50 bucks or something.
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Greg - 2006-11-09 11:17:04
I think they should have poll dancers and then maybe more people would come out to vote--probably not if the average age was 72 though...
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Paula - 2006-11-09 13:19:02
Greg: Haw.
BP: That musta been cool! What did your brother run for?
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Baby Party - 2006-11-10 08:57:12
He ran for a state representative seat.
Poll dancers, yes!
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Greg - 2006-11-10 15:24:54
I would willingly deliver the full monty if I thought it would help the Green Party... But I've done it for a six pack so I suppose that's no big deal.
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