Those are all good questions, but I do want to point out that if they were really expecting 20 voters at each location and had 300 ballots at each, it suggests that they were trying to be well prepared and got bad information/advice somewhere. This would argue against bad intent.

That doesn’t mean they still didn’t screw up, but it could be the difference between conspiracy and just unprepared

“the corporation” is running it now. It’s not about people any more, it’s all procedural and goal oriented operations now.

According to the news article “300 ballots would be available at each of the eight polling places” so that’s a lot less unreasonable than I was thinking. The fact that this race got a news article is also noteworthy, in the past these races weren’t considered important enough. I’m sure that helped bring more people in.

I also wonder what the regulations governing that district say. Maybe the law says something about having a certain number of ballots and closing the election after they are cast. If that were the case this would be a legislature problem, not an elections office problem.

Remember kids, sometimes the law requires or allows stupid things.

Well shoot… My whole comment just disappeared. I’ll do bullet points.

Even though my state is vote by mail, smaller districts like the conservation district follow different rules based on their founding documents and may do elections completely differently. Ours did theirs in person because that’s what their framework is.

Ballot ordering should be based on history. If they only had that little available, it suggests to me that may have been historically sufficient. What was the turnout last time? How much money would it be worth spending on ballots and polling places for that many/few voters?

I agree that they shouldn’t be turning anyone away. In my state we can print ballots on demand if we need them. I wish every state was invested in preventing disenfranchisement.

I don’t think it works like that. We had a guy in my state who tried to drop out of a race after he was already on the ballot. He told the media he dropped out, didn’t want the office, etc. When he won he changed his mind and they swore him in.

Elections official here, though in a different state.

We had the same thing happen here for a conservation district. Here are a few facts for our situation, it may be different than this news item, but it’s similar.

Conservation districts handle their own elections, they aren’t done by the state/county.

The last time they had an election, votes were in the low hundreds, this last time votes were in the thousands.

Our conservation district doesn’t get “official ballots” they just had something simple and when they needed more they printed more, but they were not prepared for the amount of work involved.

Conservation district elections here are not distributed to all households, they are an “interested parties show up” sort of deal. I believe in the old days you had to be a land owner to vote in then. These days I believe you need to be a resident. I’m the past no one really cared much about them, they decide things like where to plant trees to fight erosion and stuff like that. They aren’t making “political” decisions.

Please keep in mind that this wasn’t a normal election like you think of, it was more along the lines of an HOA election in terms of how it is conducted.

I don’t know if some party just googled “election” and mobilized for this, but this kind of turnout was new and unexpected.

I have no problem believing this district was blindsided by this.

It’s important to remember that this is a different sort of election though.

Thank goodness we won’t have to worry about police brutality at this one!

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He’s a con man, it’s what they do. You are angry your family got conned, we are angry your family got conned.

You are disappointed with what’s happening, we are disappointed with what’s happening.

Sounds like we have a lot in common, why wouldn’t we welcome you?

I read this title as: If chat gpt is trying to kill you, you probably won’t be able to tell it to stop.

If they don’t have the listed information, that must be proof they destroyed it and are guilty! /s

“Look buddy, we didn’t drown any slaves, we just threw them overboard all chained together in the open sea, after that what happens to them isn’t our problem”

Same energy.

Don’t let them corner you. As soon as the cops start arriving, scatter and regroup somewhere else. Waste their time.

Satanic Temple out there doing God’s work.

If you are there… Organize yourselves to disperse. Make them chase ghosts. Give then no one to fight. As soon as they start to gather a response force, walk away and start up somewhere miles away.

They cannot suppress 1000 tiny protests but a large group makes a tasty target. Do not give them the satisfaction.

No. Do not want.

Maybe they aren’t very comfortable with English but know more people speak it? It’s kind of amazing how technology can let you communicate with people you otherwise couldn’t talk to otherwise.

I love Garuda, I’ll have to give it a watch. Thanks!

While doing your research, check out Garuda, it is gaming focused and I have found it extremely user friendly.

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