NJ links would be veeery important too.
To become a poll-watcher in Florida, you must be a registered voter in the State and county in which you live. You must submit (in Writing to the SOE) your wish to become a poll-watcher. This must be submitted before 12 NOON, October 22, 2002. If you are approved to be a poll-watcher. You will be notified before the election.
On election day, when you report as a poll-watcher, your name will be checked-off by a poll-worker. A list of all designated poll-watches for each individual precinct is giving to the precinct poll-workers.
No candidate, sheriff, deputy sheriff, policeman, or other law enforcement officer may be designated as a poll-watcher.
Poll-watchers are allowed inside the polling room as observers, BUT SHALL NOT OBSTRUCT THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE ELECTION.
Now, as a poll-watcher you must furnish you own materials and necessities. IMOHO, you should have (as a minimum) the following: Voter Complaint Forms, (get either from the SOE office or over the internet); Proper knowledge of how the Voting Machine works; If posible, a listing the voters in the precinct(as a precinct committeeman I am allowed this list); I feel that any poll-watcher should at least go to the poll-worker classes to get the working knowledge for the proper procedures that they must follow.
Please remember, you are the second line of defense from voter fraud inside the polling place. But, you are the first line of defense for voting fraud OUTSIDE the polling place. And believe me, I have seen, complained and have had removed (and sometimes arrested) people that have tried to commit voter fraud.