In a message dated 11/6/2004 8:16:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You might ask if they still provide election workers with a video. I found
this more helpful than the training session or the book along.
The "video" is also shown on a few cable stations, and all elected polling officials are notified of this.
 
There are two problems, though.
1) The city only communicates with "elected polling officials." They have no way of knowing who the people "found" by the ward leaders are. And relatively few districts have elected officials. Nobody runs -- in part because it's not "promoted" so nobody knows about it. There's something "we" can do about this -- thinking globally and acting locally. We can run. There are two elected positions -- Judge of Elections and Inspector of Elections.
2) Most elected polling officials don't choose their own "workers," but let the ward leaders do it for them. One result is that, when the notices of training sessions, cable showings of the videos, etc, come in the mail, the elected officials who get them have nobody to pass the word to.
 
The Republican ward leader in this general area is Matt Wolfe, who's on this list. His Democratic counterpart is Kevin Fassett, who I don't think is on the list; Sylvia Hammerman-Brown works with him, and isn't this list but is better known than Kevin to most of us. I'm an elected 'Judge of Elections,' having run as a Libertarian. When the time rolls around, maybe I can work with Matt (stranger things have happened but don't ask me to name them), and we can invite the Dems, too, to do a multi-partisan workshop on running for one of the two elected polling official positions. Matt?
 
By the way, it's grueling work. As Bill or Stephen pointed out, the city pays $100. But if you don't think of it as a public service, you're missing the whole idea.
 
Always at your service and ready for a dialog,

Al Krigman

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