"Help Wanted" At Memphis Polls?
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- One o' them complicated new-fangled votin' machineries.
This morning, the polls at Downtown fire station on Jackson Ave — the same station where so many dead voters cast ballots in the District 29 election between Terry Roland and Ophelia Ford — was four workers short. They were so shorthanded, Flyer reporter Chris Davis was offered a job on the spot, apparently because he knew how to vote on a Diebold machine and didn’t have to ask a lot of questions.
We’re not sure what sorts of rules there are concerning instant hiring at the polls, but this can't be a good sign.
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When I voted in the primaries at South Park Elementary almost all of the poll workers seemed to be clueless. I talked to the head lady (who was the only one with a clue) about it and she told me they had a problem getting poll workers. I asked her how one went about becoming a poll worker and she took my name, address and phone number to turn in as interested. I was never called.
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