billroper | (Reply)

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The tricky part is finding people willing to be election judges. In small communities, it's hard enough to find people willing to be election judges without trying to make sure that you have an even number of Rep/Dem (leaving out the fact that most of the people in the immediate area are as likely to say no affiliation/independent as anything else).

This is the first election since we moved to Washtenaw County that there hasn't been a great cry from the County Clerk's office that "we need election judges!". (this includes the summer primaries of this year, and all the school and special elections, even the 2000 November election.)

In my personal experience, despite the fact that most of the election judges at the precinct are likely to vote Rep (at least based on conversations I've had with them outside of the polling place), the precinct as a whole has gone Dem (slightly) for the last bunch of partisan elections. It's more conservative than Wash County as a whole, but there's still a lot of farms out here. Our county clerk is Rep, but the county has gone Dem for the same period.