And that’s not all. Teams of paid “volunteers” are sent around to nursing homes to “help” the elderly fill out their ballots. While many of the teams are legitimate, others fill out the ballots for the person, influence their vote, or allow the staff manager to fill out the ballots at her desk without talking to the elder voter.
Teams are supposed to be one registered Democrat and one registered Republican. But since registered Republicans are scarce around Baltimore, quite a few “volunteers” with Democrat friends who regularly perform these election tasks simple register as Republican without caring about the spirit of the law. I went out on one team during the Obama election and saw it all first hand.
During the 2020 election, voters go to a standing desk with shields on three sides to fill out their ballots, and are supposed to insert it in a folder and then run it through the voting tabulator machine by themselves. However, a poll worker of color took my marked ballot out of my hands, read it, and put it through the machine herself; then put the ballot receipt into one of several envelopes on the floor. I compared notes with another YT voter who had been before me in line, and she had the same experience. We called the Board of Elections to report it, but they said the individual poll worker’s shift had now ended.
If anything fishy happens this time, I will photograph everything and raise loud hell at the polling place.
In TN, cameras are not allowed in polling places. Ostensibly it is to prevent people from being paid to vote a particular way.