"We have seen historically high voter turnout during the primaries and continued high registration rates this year," Rosemary Rodriguez, chairman of the Election Assistance Commission, said Thursday.
"Election officials throughout the nation anticipate high voter turnout to continue in the general election," said Rodriguez, Denver's former clerk.
"Preparation for high turnout includes extra ballots and voting machines, but most important, we must have as many poll workers, including bilingual poll workers, as possible to prevent long lines."
To volunteer as poll workers of election judges at a Wyoming precinct, contact your county clerk. The Laramie County Clerk is Debbye Lathrop and you can get more info at http://www.laramiecountyclerk.com/index.asp. I've been a poll worker and an election judge. I was paid for my judging capabilities, and even paid for the training session that preceded the 2006 primaries and general election. This is a great way to understand the election system in all its glory and inglory.
I especially encourage young people to volunteer as poll workers, as we could use a little lowering of the average age. Right now, I'd say that it hovers somewhere around 70, with me being on the lower end of the scale and almost everyone else on the higher end.
Who wants to be around a lot of old people, you might say. Well, we can impart some hard-earned wisdom. Also, the snacks at the precinct on election day are beyond the usual doughnuts and rotgut coffee you might expect. I hate to be sexist, but many of the women volunteers actually bake coffee cakes and strudels and lunchtime casseroles (it's a long day at the polls). So, there are some benefits....
As Democrats, we need to be at the polls to make sure that all election proceedings are conducted legally. We've all heard about the voter suppression tactics practiced by Republicans. Don't let them get away with it!
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Hi,
I really enjoyed reading your blog, and I'd like to invite you to join a national movement of positive bloggers for Obama: we've pledged to write a positive blog post once a week about Obama for the next 10 weeks.
It would be easy for you, since you are already a prolific blogger—and your blog will probably get a lot more traffic because we’ll all be linking to one another’s blogs and promoting the event. There's nothing more to it than the positive blogging you’re already doing, but the “10 Post Pledge” is really catching on, building the positive momentum of the Obama campaign all over the country!
Our goal is to get all 50 states represented and we're halfway there! but we're missing Wyoming--I guess there aren't too many progressive bloggers, so we REALLY can't do it without you!
check out the link to see the details and sign up: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/44hfj
or email me at rubymsw@gmail.com if you're not on myBO.com
I hope you'll join us! You can see the interactive map showing 45+ bloggers in 25 states (and an RSS feed with snippets from the 10 most recent blog posts) at: http://rubycrushonobama.blogspot.com
Ruby
Ruby: Great idea. I'll go there now and sign up.
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