A day at the polls
4 am and I was up getting ready to be at the poll by 5:30 for my first time as a poll inspector. Our ballot only had one item to vote on, whether to allow the parimutuals to have real slot machines (as opposed to the computer ones which are already in use on the reservations) or not. The supposed beneficiary to be education from the taxes on the money made dropping those coins. When arriving at the poll the predominant feeling was, how are we going to get through this day as no one is going to be coming in to vote on this one issue. Our precinct has 1300 people. We shared the poll with another precinct that has 264. They were predicting that 5 voters would cast their ballots. When the sixth one came in, cheers erupted (we were extremely bored.) They ended up having 14 voters. Yee haw! We had 134, 68 for and 63 against with 3 undervotes. Now, the undervotes are a mystery yet to be solved as we use the IVotronic machines, not sure who makes them, and the clerk didn't even know what or how an undervote could happen. Within those 134 votes we had a person who had supposedly received an absentee ballot, told us to stop sending them to him, he then was allowed to vote; 3 people coming to the wrong place, they were told where to go; 10 people who said they knew how to use the machine and then needed help, whereupon you see how they are voting, so much for privacy (none); a first time voter that was supposed to be marked as a marg voter, but wasn't. All in all alot of quirks for only 10% of the possible voters turning out. I cannot imagine what would happen if everyone who could vote did vote. I learned alot of things about this voting system, one of which is that very few, if any, provisional votes are counted. Miami-Dade also had this issue on their ballot. Upon arising this morning, burning with curiousity as to whether it passed or not, the newscaster said that there were 2 outcomes. Evidently, which I did not realize, this was a county by county issue. The only other county that had this was Miami-Dade and they voted against having the slots. Jeb had come out very strongly against it which swayed alot of the Cubans. Why they listen to him is beyond me. But in Broward it passed. So Broward county will now be the only county in Florida that can have real slot machines. As to whether the school system will ever see any of the money, well that will be another story.
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Andrea
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4 am and I was up getting ready to be at the poll by 5:30 for my first time as a poll inspector. Our ballot only had one item to vote on, whether to allow the parimutuals to have real slot machines (as opposed to the computer ones which are already in use on the reservations) or not. The supposed beneficiary to be education from the taxes on the money made dropping those coins. When arriving at the poll the predominant feeling was, how are we going to get through this day as no one is going to be coming in to vote on this one issue. Our precinct has 1300 people. We shared the poll with another precinct that has 264. They were predicting that 5 voters would cast their ballots. When the sixth one came in, cheers erupted (we were extremely bored.) They ended up having 14 voters. Yee haw! We had 134, 68 for and 63 against with 3 undervotes. Now, the undervotes are a mystery yet to be solved as we use the IVotronic machines, not sure who makes them, and the clerk didn't even know what or how an undervote could happen. Within those 134 votes we had a person who had supposedly received an absentee ballot, told us to stop sending them to him, he then was allowed to vote; 3 people coming to the wrong place, they were told where to go; 10 people who said they knew how to use the machine and then needed help, whereupon you see how they are voting, so much for privacy (none); a first time voter that was supposed to be marked as a marg voter, but wasn't. All in all alot of quirks for only 10% of the possible voters turning out. I cannot imagine what would happen if everyone who could vote did vote. I learned alot of things about this voting system, one of which is that very few, if any, provisional votes are counted. Miami-Dade also had this issue on their ballot. Upon arising this morning, burning with curiousity as to whether it passed or not, the newscaster said that there were 2 outcomes. Evidently, which I did not realize, this was a county by county issue. The only other county that had this was Miami-Dade and they voted against having the slots. Jeb had come out very strongly against it which swayed alot of the Cubans. Why they listen to him is beyond me. But in Broward it passed. So Broward county will now be the only county in Florida that can have real slot machines. As to whether the school system will ever see any of the money, well that will be another story.
