Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Poll Dancing aka Protecting Democracy

I’ve taken the first steps to become more involved in protecting our democracy. I will be a polling place supervisor during California’s June 3rd election. My day will begin at 5:00am and go until about 10:00pm. In all I’ll be paid about $170 for time, which includes the two-and-a-half hour training session I went through a few nights ago and the 2 hours or so required to pick up all of the voting equipment for the polling station (this Sunday.) It does not cover the snacks I’ll need to buy as