Starting at 11:00 (https://youtu.be/5KBAJik9_SQ?t=660), Brian Tyler Cohen brings up Shaye Moss and Lady Ruby -- the Georgia election workers who were so thoroughly maligned and harassed by Trump and his followers, and Jamie Raskin responds.
BTC points out that the online vitriol directed at Shaye Moss creates an environment in which it's harder to attract honest citizens to do this essential work of democracy -- poll workers.
I transcribed use a part of this segment:
BTC: It's not just that it happened. It's that now it's going to be that much more difficult to recruit other people to do the right thing, to do what these people were doing, which was just their civic duty and showing up and being elections workers, something that we desperately need to do, and then it creates this vacuum that's then filled by bad actors, and so that was...
JR: "Well, Shaye Moss is an extraordinary representative of American electoral democracy in action. I mean, we don't have a democracy if we don't have Shae Moss and people like her, who are willing to wake up early, and get down to the polling place, and check people in, and, um, you know, make sure that people are getting their absentee ballots and explaining how the system works. I mean, she is the face of how American democracy works like Donald Trump is the face of how American plutocracy and autocracy and kleptocracy and theocracy work, through all of his evil designs. So that was a remarkable moment too. I agree with you."
No longer involved in government as an elected official, I became an election inspector.
The shortage, especially among Democrats, had always been apparent. I had lost much of my interest in campaigning, political speeches, events and the entire process leading up to an election. But service is in my genes. I choose to work a16-hour day. They can be brutally long, but I have come to appreciate the lengths our Boards of Elections go to insure safe, secure and sane elections. I encourage more people to get involved and have been successful in getting an additional three Greenwich Dems trained. I'm moving on to increasing that number throughout Washington County.
I went and looked a little harder. For some reason I can’t paste it here. I believe there just has to be one representative from both of the major parties present at the poll site the whole time. Otherwise, yes there could be an independent.
Election inspectors do need to be registered voters. Just FYI there.
I work as an election inspector but only the second half of the day. Definitely wimpy and definitely not a morning person. It’s 8:30 now and that’s too early.
I’m grateful to be doing it in the peaceful existence of Northern NY. Serving in Georgia, Arizona or some other locales would require some serious dedication. There is on political party I see as not having any real problem with that. And that’s the sort of opinion forbidden at the polling place. 😊
I did a cursory, unsuccessful search for whether an independent can serve as an inspector. My guess is yes you can. A bipartisan team is required for opening and closing the polls and everything in between. It might be necessary for there to be a Democrat and a Republican both at the poll site, tho. I’d wondered that before and never thought to ask. You could also call one of the BOEs and ask.
Your suggestions for getting people to vote are excellent! We should contact our legislators and urge them to use them. Also, it was great of you to try to help get workers to help out at the election places.
Brian Tyler Cohen interviewed Jamie Raskin. It was published on YouTube on September 12:
https://youtu.be/5KBAJik9_SQ
Starting at 11:00 (https://youtu.be/5KBAJik9_SQ?t=660), Brian Tyler Cohen brings up Shaye Moss and Lady Ruby -- the Georgia election workers who were so thoroughly maligned and harassed by Trump and his followers, and Jamie Raskin responds.
BTC points out that the online vitriol directed at Shaye Moss creates an environment in which it's harder to attract honest citizens to do this essential work of democracy -- poll workers.
I transcribed use a part of this segment:
BTC: It's not just that it happened. It's that now it's going to be that much more difficult to recruit other people to do the right thing, to do what these people were doing, which was just their civic duty and showing up and being elections workers, something that we desperately need to do, and then it creates this vacuum that's then filled by bad actors, and so that was...
JR: "Well, Shaye Moss is an extraordinary representative of American electoral democracy in action. I mean, we don't have a democracy if we don't have Shae Moss and people like her, who are willing to wake up early, and get down to the polling place, and check people in, and, um, you know, make sure that people are getting their absentee ballots and explaining how the system works. I mean, she is the face of how American democracy works like Donald Trump is the face of how American plutocracy and autocracy and kleptocracy and theocracy work, through all of his evil designs. So that was a remarkable moment too. I agree with you."
I believe I saw an interview with the Georgia election workers on a segment of 60 Minutes.
No longer involved in government as an elected official, I became an election inspector.
The shortage, especially among Democrats, had always been apparent. I had lost much of my interest in campaigning, political speeches, events and the entire process leading up to an election. But service is in my genes. I choose to work a16-hour day. They can be brutally long, but I have come to appreciate the lengths our Boards of Elections go to insure safe, secure and sane elections. I encourage more people to get involved and have been successful in getting an additional three Greenwich Dems trained. I'm moving on to increasing that number throughout Washington County.
Can you also have “independent” election inspectors?
I went and looked a little harder. For some reason I can’t paste it here. I believe there just has to be one representative from both of the major parties present at the poll site the whole time. Otherwise, yes there could be an independent.
Election inspectors do need to be registered voters. Just FYI there.
Thanks Kevin.
I work as an election inspector but only the second half of the day. Definitely wimpy and definitely not a morning person. It’s 8:30 now and that’s too early.
I’m grateful to be doing it in the peaceful existence of Northern NY. Serving in Georgia, Arizona or some other locales would require some serious dedication. There is on political party I see as not having any real problem with that. And that’s the sort of opinion forbidden at the polling place. 😊
I did a cursory, unsuccessful search for whether an independent can serve as an inspector. My guess is yes you can. A bipartisan team is required for opening and closing the polls and everything in between. It might be necessary for there to be a Democrat and a Republican both at the poll site, tho. I’d wondered that before and never thought to ask. You could also call one of the BOEs and ask.
Thanks Kevin. Seems like there might be a lot of independent voters who might be willing to volunteer.
Your suggestions for getting people to vote are excellent! We should contact our legislators and urge them to use them. Also, it was great of you to try to help get workers to help out at the election places.