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Can't answer that- no clue what, if anything, they plan to do about it, or whether there is currently a penalty in law. They seem to be dismissing it as poll workers being "overwhelmed" with change and new technology. One report indicates the disproportionate failure in minority (black) precincts is due to a lack of computer literate voters in the precinct.

Surely, with the majority of poll workers statewide being retired folks- and no other counties having mass no shows- it would seem reasonable to assume the other 65 counties in Florida spent the time necessary to teach them what they needed to know. Dade gave them only 3 hours of training- Broward only 4- obviously not enough.

I would also like to know why, if they felt they couldn't do the job, they wouldn't just say so up front, and let the Supervisors arrange for replacements. There is something more to this story we don't know.

I will look into the existing law, and see whether we need to create some kind of fine (at LEAST) for dereliction of duty. To my knowledge, this has never happened before, so I'm not sure the Legislature contemplated something like this in the election reform passed last year.
The big counties have to recruit and train thousands of poll workers for every election (Broward had more than 6,000, Dade almost that number) and are also required to be bi- or multi-lingual by federal mandate. One freeper suggested making election day a national holiday, to widen the pool of potential poll workers, and that may be a good idea, as voting technology becomes more sophisticated. (Maryland now allows high school students to be poll workers, as they had problems teaching touch screen procedures to their elderly poll workers. Florida law would not permit that- workers must be registered voters within the precinct, and represent evenly the parties.)

Meanwhile- pray that Reno gets enough new votes to be the nominee- or at least takes it to court to demand a recount statewide. It will leave their party in complete disarray- forced to support the weakest candidate in November, and kill weeks of campaign time before November.