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#BlueWaveInterview
Check out our interview with @gdlittledorf and Bob Wilson of Illinois, who spoke to me about doing the essential work on #ElectionDay: working the polls.

Read the highlights in this thread, or read it in full at Political Charge:
politicalcharge.org/2018/08/08/blu…
Why Bob got involved with elections:

“I was so alarmed and upset by the hanging chad situation in the 2000 presidential election, I got involved in the very next election.”
Can you have any influence over how the polls are run?

“Yes!”
As an equipment judge, does Bob have thoughts around balloting and electronic voting?

“I ended up helping to found the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project… Ultimately, our group unanimously agreed that paper ballots were the way to go.”
Do you have an Election Day story that stands out in your mind?

Jody: The first Election Day I worked, I showed up at the polling location really early. Polling opens at 6am in our county. The supervisor at the location knew this was my first shift and so suggested that I …
… be the person to physically open the location. She told me to say, "Hear ye, Hear ye, the polls are now open." I opened the doors, and there in front of me was a long line of 75 people who were already there! I burst into tears and they all applauded.
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