[A Navy Vet]

"One of our precincts was 40 miles south of Anchorage. On election day there was an avalanche on the one road connecting the precinct and the counting center in Anchorage. It wouldn’t be cleared for a couple days. To adhere to Code, we had to hire a helicopter to bring in the ballots. There was no waiting. There were no excuses. There was no whining."

Good on you guys. You did what needed to be done for the most important domestic issue there is. I assume you had witnesses and/or election officials from both partys overseeing the transfer, even on the chopper.

[MayflowerMadam]

“I assume you had witnesses and/or election officials from both partys overseeing the transfer, even on the chopper.”

Definitely. And on the Facsimile Board, each pair of workers consisted of one from each party. Precinct workers were equally paired.

My Data Processing Review Board which was responsible for the ballot design, creating ballots (IBM punch cards), running test runs for weeks before the election, consisted of an equal number of workers.

It was a different time then. Everyone respected each other and everyone got along.