http://configures.sarahelkins.org/2008/02/08/75/ Figure it out ... with me! Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:49:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://configures.sarahelkins.org/2008/02/08/75/comment-page-1/#comment-13974 ConFigures » Blog Archive » Election Training, Procedures, and Security Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:01:44 +0000 http://configures.sarahelkins.org/?p=75#comment-13974 [...] As I mentioned last month, I took training near the end of January to be a Closing Judge for the Maryland Primary Election.   This is a new position Maryland has instituted to assist the Chief Judges with shutting down the voting units at the end of an election day.  This involves showing up fresh at 6:30 pm, to assist the other judges (who would have been there all day) until polls close at 8 pm, and then pairing up with a Chief Judge from another political party (not one’s own) to log information and collect memory cards from, and shut down, each voting unit one by one .  In my county’s training (this differed by county, from what a friend working as an election judge in another county told me), we were also told the Closing Judges (two per precint, from different parties) would deliver the critical materials to the Board of Elections after they were collected. [...] [...] As I mentioned last month, I took training near the end of January to be a Closing Judge for the Maryland Primary Election.   This is a new position Maryland has instituted to assist the Chief Judges with shutting down the voting units at the end of an election day.  This involves showing up fresh at 6:30 pm, to assist the other judges (who would have been there all day) until polls close at 8 pm, and then pairing up with a Chief Judge from another political party (not one’s own) to log information and collect memory cards from, and shut down, each voting unit one by one .  In my county’s training (this differed by county, from what a friend working as an election judge in another county told me), we were also told the Closing Judges (two per precint, from different parties) would deliver the critical materials to the Board of Elections after they were collected. [...]

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