Managed to forget this good link, so I will post it here. "Some Elections are stolen inside the polls on election day".
http://www.precinctpeople.com/MainPage/current/inside_the_precinct_polling_plac.htm
Inside the Precinct Polling Place on Election Day!
What’s normal inside the Polling Place?
The only way to be able to pick out something that is abnormal is to be familiar with what is normal! A normal day inside the precinct on Election Day should start about an hour before the polls open. Everyone (Republicans and Democrats) should arrive about the same time. If someone has arrived real early or spent the night in the polling place, then they have had time to arrange something. No one is to enter the building, or the voting room (it should be locked) until everyone is there or at least representatives of both parties arrive.
Everyone working on Election Day should have the proper papers appointing them as a Clerk or Poll Watcher. The Clerk papers come from the County or State and the Watcher papers can be from a candidate or party.
Bring your own cell phone on Election Day! Do not rely on “the school will have a phone in the office.” If there is a problem, you will have to leave the room to make a phone call. If there is a problem, you want to call your Republican Ballot Security Office and the County Election Headquarters. These phone numbers should have been given to you at your training meeting before Election Day.
Bring a video camera, or at least a regular camera. Have a notebook and pin. If you look ready for trouble, there may not be as much!
Bring a cooler with you own sandwiches and drinks or send out for lunch and dinner. Do not leave the room without a Republican representative! Do not except food or drink from anyone! Secure your own.
Do not take bathroom breaks unless there is a Republican representative left in the voting room! If you are the only Republican, don’t drink anything so you won’t have to go! Call your Republican Ballot Security Office and ask them to send someone to give you a break.
Upon entering the voting area make sure all the machines, computer terminals, punch tables were locked and secured. Look for any signs of tampering or forced opening. Together inspect the machines or terminals, the backs and face, to look for any markings or signs of tampering. If you don’t know what to look for, look for anything abnormal, out of place, odd!
The election administration materials and paperwork should arrive sealed or under lock and key. The Precinct Judge or Chairman should have the papers and keys. Together inspect the forms used to report the votes at the end of the day. They should be blank. Everyone should agree the forms are blank. They should be stored during the day where both parties can see them but secure from the public.
Voters should line up on one side of the room or in the hallway if in a school. There should be no campaigning or the passing out of ligature allowed inside the building. The polling place is a neutral area. No campaign posters allowed in the hallways or voting room. No signs are allowed outside the building for at least 100 yards (It differs from state to state). Don’t allow a Democrat clerk to park their car next to the main entrance with all their bumper stickers showing. Make them move their car away from the door.
Voters can wear campaign buttons and have campaign ligature on their person but only for personal use, not for passing around. A Republican and Democrat may have to stand in the hall to watch the line.
The room should be set up with at least two long tables facing the voting machines. You want to be able to see the machines from where you sit. The voting machines should be arraigned in a horseshoe against the walls of the room in front of you. You don’t want to leave enough room for someone to stand behind the machines or you want to leave a lot of room so you can see if someone is behind the machines. If you have close to equal numbers of Republican and Democrat Election Clerks, you should be seated at the table, Republican, Democrat, Republican, Democrat and so forth. This way you can check each other and provide balance, each watching the other.
If you are the only Republican in a room of ten Democrats, you are outnumbered!
The first two at the table (Republican and Democrat) should great the voter as they arrive and ask for their Voter Registration Card. If the voter does not have a card, he must show some form of picture ID. If he cannot then he must be challenged! Take the Voter Registration Card and match it up with the listing in the Voter Registration List for that precinct. In a large precinct the list and checkers may be divided into “A-L” and “M-Z” and so forth. When you are convinced that the person presenting the card or wanting to vote is that person listed in the book, pass the card on to the next two clerks.
The next two at the table should observe the voter signing in on the registration book. The signature should match the one on the Voter Registration Card.
The next two at the table should hand out the ballots or computer cards. The check in table should not approve voters faster than the machines are available for voting. You don’t want a bunch of approved voters standing around waiting for a machine to become available to vote.
The Floor Controllers (A Republican and a Democrat) will point out an open machine or terminal to the already approved voter. They should direct the floor traffic. They are the ones that will assist any voters who ask for help. No one voter should be helped alone. A Republican and Democrat should help all voters together. Together the face of the machines should be checked at least every half hour or after each voter has finished voting by the Floor Controllers.
In precincts that use paper ballots or computer cards a Republican and a Democrat should stand next to the Ballot Box. This is where all marked or punched ballots are deposited until the end of the day. The box should have been opened at the start of the day to make sure it was empty before the voting started, then locked and kept locked until the voting was over.
After voting, voters should leave the room without hanging around talking or disturbing other voters. Voters are limited to three minutes in the voting booth and should not have to stand in line too long.
There will be a morning rush (people going to work), a lunch rush, and an evening rush (people getting off work). Most polls are open from 7:00am to 7 or 8:00pm.
If you are working in a poll on Election Day and you are not registered to vote there you should make arrangements to vote by absentee ballot. If you have to leave to vote, call your Republican Ballot Security Office and arrange for someone to replace you while you go vote.
If you live in the precinct you are clerking or poll watching in, you can vote at anytime. Do not let the Democrats tell you that you cannot vote until the end of the day incase there are any “over votes”!
About 4:00pm, the Chairman should begin filling out the paperwork! There is a ton of it! Blanks where the name of the precinct needs to be filled in or the “who worked” paperwork can be started. Offer to help, this way you can observe.
After the polls close, close the doors to the room. The public is allowed to observe the counting of ballots and recording of the votes but they cannot interfere or disrupt the process.
Check the machines and shut them down. Record the votes working in teams of Republicans and Democrats. Work in teams in filling out the paper work.
The paper work should be sealed or locked before it is transported to the central election headquarters, usually the County Clerk’s Office or Court House.
Media and candidates may show up at anytime during the day. Be nice but try to rush the Democrat candidates along.