Poll Worker Moments

[majkia]

We’ve been busy as heck getting ready for the Republican presidential primary here in Florida. It is scheduled for the 31st of January. I’ve already spent last week and most of this week in class – being trained, and training poll workers. Also for early voting which begins on the 21st here and ends on the 28th.

There are some horrible horrible changes our elected lunatics have pushed through, supposedly to cut down on voter fraud, that non-existent thing they keep harping on. So what do they do?  They end up making voter fraud easier!  And not only that, making life harder for their voters, the fools. I honestly don’t know how their pea little brains work.  Sheesh.

The worst moment so far came in training on Tuesday when one of our folks dropped down dead. And that was pretty much how it happened. He was walking across the room, collapsed, and we had paramedics in the class who immediately came to his assistance. They revived him once, but they lost him again.

His wife was there for training and had to stand and watch all of this, horrified, needless to say. To make matters even more horrible, if they can be, the couple had only just lost their son two months ago.  Argh.

So here we were, several hundred people, watching all of this happening in front of us. I do have to say I am so proud of our poll workers. They sat pretty much silent and no one tried to gawk and everyone just remained at their tables until the paramedics took him out. The room was nearly totally silent, the only sound the equipment they were using on our worker and the paramedics on their radios and talking to each other.

You just never know, do you?