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243 posted on 10/14/2008 3:44:24 PM PDT by KansasCanadian (The only thing worse than a male chauvanist pig is a woman who won't do what she's told)

Yep, I’ve done the scrutineer thing as a teenager. Basically, every candidate has the right to send an agent to each poll to observe the voting and the count. It’s so open and so routine that at a polling station that usually covers a dozen or so polls, all of the scrutineers for all candidates get together and arrange to have at least two scrutineers from competing candidates cover each individual poll. Except for the mad dash to the one phone to call in our results (no cell phones back then), it was all very civilized. The count was usually followed by a few drinks with the scrutineers from the other parties.

249 posted on 10/14/2008 3:54:28 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (TSA and DHS are jobs programs for people who are not smart enough to flip burgers)

Scrutineer?

It really is quaint/wonderful.

We are allowed to question the validity of other voters. From truth, comes strength, eh?

:-)

250 posted on 10/14/2008 3:55:34 PM PDT by fanfan (SCC:Canadians have constitutional protection to all opinions, as long as they are based on the facts)