Treat Election Day Like A Blizzard is Coming

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As an election judge, I'm getting stressed out about this election.  There's going to be a HUGE turnout.  I don't have enough clerks.  And I'm worried about free-range "poll watchers" who have appointed themselves monitors (we have a process in Texas if you want to become a poll watcher) and haven't bothered to actually go through the steps to be a real poll watcher.

I will be setting up my voting site with preparations on what to do if someone comes in with a gun or if there's a bomb threat.  I'll have to talk with the site (it's a senior citizens center) about fire escape routes and then let my clerks know about emergency procedures.

NOTHING may happen (likeliest scenario) - but I have to plan for the "just in case" option. 

I will be SO glad when the election is over.

Thats pretty cool but what is an election judge? Do you set up a specific precinct? You don't have early voting yet or is that just at specific locations

Regardless yes you have a responsibility to be prepared. Good to hear we have people of intelligence and integrity involved thats makes me feel better, and it's indicative of Texas. 

I might have to tell my daughter who is a teacher to do the same.

Though I also believe the chances are slim all it takes is one incident. Hopefully, the huge mail-in and early voting will make it easier and more normal. 

Lots of people I talk with just want a nice normal election and hope all sides turn down the smears and rhetoric 
Our political discourse has devolved to where it's become its worst form, again both sides. 

Locally and statewide we have had a huge early voting and mail-ins, supposedly over 20% of registered voters that hs to help lower the chaos and potential problems with long lines. 

Hopefully, the TPTB learned how to be more efficient in the last 3 1/2 years, if states didn't learn from Florida in 2000 thats on each state's government. 

Florida had chaos and fixed it all while being a hotly-contested state all of it was done with BIPARTISAN legislation fopr the greater good of the state and all of its citizens.

But of course, in 2000 both sides looked at the chaos as an embarrassment, whereas now the party with the most control looks at it as an opportunity to force legislation beneficial to their side.