From Facebook, it sounds as if the Minnehaha county auditor should have instituted the 6P program for election workers: Prior planning prevents **** poor performance:
The day before the election, and the Minnehaha County auditor does not have a sufficient number of poll workers?
I had heard about this being an issue about a week ago, when a candidate was talking to people who were poll workers over on the western side of Minnehaha county. These poll workers said they had not been contacted for training or anything, and were in fact, wondering why they hadn’t heard anything as they had done the work for years.
It sounds like the county auditor’s office dropped the ball, and we may be watching a slow moving disaster starting at 7 o’clock tomorrow night.
Will they know who their precinct people are before the Republican convention commences on Thursday?
They may still be counting on their fingers and toes at that point.
How can they want to hand count when they can’t even find people to sit at the polls?
Good point, didn’t she say she would bring in counting boards to hand count I. The precinct and make precincts smaller. So double the workers plus more if you make more precincts. Doesn’t sound like that’s a viable option…. Someone better check her resolution board makeup. Does she have all canvassers on there and no dems? Recipe for disaster
These people don’t think anything through. They want smaller precincts so they need more workers and they can’t find people now.
So is she’s going to go with 3 Republican fellow canvassers working at the precinct. I don’t think anyone feels comfortable with that…. Imagine if another county had 3 dems working, SD canvassing would freak, I hope the dems raise hell if she doesn’t follow the law and have split party representation
Causing chaos, stupidity, and incompetence is clearly the primary attribute required to be in politics today.
Like every voter, I want accurate results reported without undue delay. I expect a large turnout of conservatives. I predict several great candidates prevail and a few good ones lose. I’ll add that Sioux Falls city election officials did a good job earlier this year, recruiting sufficient poll workers and volunteers to deliver prompt, accurate results with no annoying errors. We’ll see how Minnehaha compares.
Never, ever forget: the people causing problems and inaccuracies with voting state wide are the same individuals claiming the election was stolen. They campaigned on “fixing” voting and have proceeded to gut its effective administration. Thanks, MAGA. You absolute turds.
Blame your fellow voters.
Yes, friendo, the people I am referring to are some of my fellow voters. Helpful addition, there.
MAGA = Chaos
MAGA wants to do this with every level and dept of government. Just wait until most of the depts get gutted. You will get to see first hand how bad things get. Rural states like SD and their residents will suffer.
Problem is that when you get to extremism whether left or in this case right they are completely oblivious nor care about the damage they cause. It is all about them.
Which is why if we can create a party of moderates from both the left and right, we can avoid the insane fringes and actually accomplish something positive in this country.
I think it would be hilarious if the Minnehaha delegation to the convention is not certified in time to go to the convention. This might generate support for the proposal to have the term of office for precinct committee people to begin July 1.
“Poll Workers?? You mean we have to find and place Poll Workers?? Nobody ever told me that.” Ms. Anderson queried.