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Aug 28, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read Read on X
Why DO these 'protesters' take video of everything they're doing, but also block cameras of street journalists trying to document what's going on?

I don't understand. It's not like they aren't proud of themselves.
In so many videos I see these demonstrators operating in a sea of cell phone recordings. Where are they publishing these recordings? Which platforms?

And what's the purpose?
Are they capturing their deeds for historical purposes, or to show they were a part of the resistance?

Are they that confident they will never have those recordings used against them?

Are they an intimidation tactic?
Are they recording their antics hoping they can intimidate people into staying home?

'We are terrorizing this nice suburb, and yours could be next.'

Is that what it is?

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Nov 10, 2022
So how about that Harris County Election Administration meltdown, eh?
I've tweeted about the failures of this office all year, you can catch some of it here

And here texasscorecard.com/commentary/cra…
You should know how I spent election day.
I worked on the Rapid Response Team that @HarrisCountyRP set up to support election judges and respond to election issues of all types.

My role was to man the phones for tech help and dispatch team members to polls where needed.
Read 34 tweets
Apr 3, 2022
We need to talk about this nonsense, right now. Pull up a chair.
Let me tell you about staffing elections in Harris county.

For most locations, you need a minimum of about 5 people, two judges and three clerks. The county typically staffs a location with 6 people, so we'll use that to extrapolate.
I did this math before, but we'll go over it again. In Harris County:

Election judges get paid $20/hr.
Alternate judges and clerks get paid $17/hr.
Both are eligible for overtime pay.
Read 37 tweets
Mar 7, 2022
Alan Vera, Chair of Ballot Security Committee for @HarrisCountyRP on whethr the Election Administrator's failure is due to incompetence or something worse:

"At what point does election incompetence become the perfect camoflage for election malfeasance?"
The wrong-sized ballot paper was delivered to some election judges.

Other judges weren't issued ANY ballot paper.

Some judges received broken election equipment.

Some never had their equipment delivered at all.

Most of these were Republican judges, Alan says.
Judges who were issued the wrong sized paper didn't know the paper was the wrong size, because they'd never had legal size paper before.

Voters who voted on the short paper ballots had up to FIFTEEN RACES CUT OFF. Those included the County Judge and County Commissioner races.
Read 17 tweets
Mar 2, 2022
It's the day after the Texas Primaries, and while we wait for the Harris County results (long story you can read about elsewhere) I want to put down some of my experiences.

I've posted about voters overcoming many personal and techical obstacles. Now some of what we faced.
First, Harris County removed election authority from the elected County Clerk a few years ago, and created an appointed Election Administrator, answerable to Commisioners Court.

As you can guess, a crony payoff position waiting to happen.
I'm not making that accusation, as much as saying it's a bad idea to make your elections authority an appointed position, no matter who holds the office. There has to be accountability, and I'm more comfortable with that coming directly from voters.
Read 36 tweets
Nov 5, 2020
When we check in a voter in Harris county, we scan their ID or perform a simple database search to pull up their unique voter ID.

If there are notes, like say someone needs to update their address, we see that and can help them do that before proceeding.
When a person has applied for a mail ballot, the system has a note there to that effect so that we'll see it if they show up in person.

We're supposed to have them fill out a mail ballot cancellation form and update the system so that it gets canceled right away.
I don't know for sure because I just started working early voting this year, but I understood that the voters weren't previously required to surrender the ballots during early voting. On election day, yes, but during early voting ballots can be slow to arrive in the mail.
Read 60 tweets
Oct 22, 2020
I've worked 8 days now out of my 17 early voting day schedule as an election judge in Harris county.

Most of those days I worked 6 am to 7:30 pm, with a half hour for lunch.

It's long days and paperwork and staff management and voter assistance.

And sometimes a joy.
The neatest thing is the number of stories I get to witness, the small slices of life I get to observe.

For instance, each time the team discovers a first-time voter, they announce it to the whole room, and everyone cheers and claps.

I often tear up at that.
Every location in Harris is required to have staff fluent in Spanish, Vietnamese, and Chinese, so I've spent a lot of time getting to know our language specialist clerks.

They have been busy all week.
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