Regarding the below: this morning I voted at 42nd/Baltimore, right at 7. After the first person voted one of the volunteers working the voting machines told the other one that you are supposed to press a button to reset the thing after each and every voter... the other said, "they didn't tell us that.. they never told us that" but it appeared the machine wouldn't work otherwise so he went ahead with it. The first guy seemed to know what he was talking about. The second, not so much.
The question becomes, Who is "they?"
Most likely, "they" is the local ward leader, who winds up at the last minute simply recruiting bodies to fill in the Election Board because nobody can be bothered to serve. It's a sad comment on the way the Elections are and have always been run in Philadelphia.
Note that, everybody on the Election Board actually gets paid about $100 for the day. You get paid more for having attended the City run training sessions.
The training sessions run by the City clearly describe the action of the "Officer's Control button." This is also described on page 11, "Operating the Voting Machine" of the "Newspaper" handout given to everyone who attended the City training sessions, and included in the "box" of election paraphernalia. That newspaper gives full and complete instructions for setting up the machines, "Opening," and "Closing" them for the election, as well as operating them during the election.
T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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