We’re hearing very encouraging reports from the polling places. And I’m having a wacky time, juggling phone calls and shuffling volunteers and dispatching supplies of stickers. Several new volunteers have joined us over the course of the day who we didn’t even know – just voters who saw our people handing out stickers and decided to stay and help for the rest of the day. This is the sort of campaign where each volunteer added means votes added.
Campaign volunteers need to stay 150 feet away from the doors to the polling place – and that sometimes means voters approach from different directions and volunteers need to split up to get to all of them. At one polling place, Diane Wilkerson’s volunteers were inside the limit until the police came to ask them to move away; at another, they were getting right at the door until the warden asked them to move. We’re instructing all of our volunteers to honor the 150 foot limit. If we add more people, we miss fewer voters.
Please join us in the last few hours! You can help us by giving out stickers to voters and answering their questions about how to vote absentee, and by staying to observe the hand count and call in the results from a precinct. Call us at 617-848-0875.
Upon hearing great news from one of the precinct captains, she strikes a pose! “No, I was not a cheerleader. I just play one in election day boiler rooms.”
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When I compare something she said to GIR from Invader Zim: “‘You’re like a cracked-out robot’ – that’s really one of the best compliments I ever received.”
My 1yo and 6yo sons are now safely in bed and my husband is still not returned from working the polls for Chang-Diaz since 9am! I can’t find any prelim. numbers on this senate race. Does anyone have anything to share?
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At 8:20pm I was out front of our house getting the kids backpacks, etc, from the car (finally) and talking with a neighbor just returned from voting, and then another neigbor came out to his porch (primary night-itis?!) when my 6yo opened our porch door and called out “Hey Mom, Patick won!” we had NECN on while doing the before-bed PT exercises for his broken leg…
my better half was working his poll assignment for Sonia Chang Diaz from 6:45 am yesterday (not 9am!!) and as I just heard about, he started his time there with a Samiyah Diaz volunteer trying to take down the Chang Diaz signs and trash them in an alley–things got pretty nasty but the Chang Diaz signs went and stayed back up. (Samiyah Diaz had no signs up there to begin with and none went up all day).
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The other item of note is that when said spouse was directed last evening by the Chang Diaz campaign to go to another polling place at closing to observe the count and did so, the policewoman at that poll site was very nasty–both to him and to another nice guy who was from Chuck Turner’s contingent working that poll for Patrick.
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When polite requests were made, addressed to the poll workers, to observe the counting the 2 afore-mentioned poll observers were kicked out by the policewoman in a not very nice way.
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I sure with Bonifaz had started his campaign sooner and won the primary for SOS…
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Last thing: A Globe online story reports that 8 precincts were not counted for this Senate race, yet. Stay tuned.
that this race is the only one with any suspense? This is killing me, all write ins. What could be better? Gotta root for the woman from UVA!!