Category: National Campaigns

For election judges at the NIU Rec Center, here’s how Election Day played out yesterday:

From 6 a.m. to 4 p.m., 856 people came in to use the Campus Recreation Center. In the same amount of time, 2 people came to vote. By 6 p.m., the total was up to 3 voters and one more person was preparing to be the fourth voter of the night.

The Rec center was the polling place for the DeKalb precincts 2, 7, 9 and 12, the precincts for students who live in the Douglas, Lincoln, Grant and Stevenson Residence Halls. Students who are registered to vote at their home address rather than in the precincts of the residence halls were not able to vote at the Rec Center on Tuesday.

Other students were simply not aware there was an election.

Guess whose precinct had to deliver a ballot box that didn’t rattle at all? Continue reading Post-Election Open Thread

I’ve been an election judge on the Northern Illinois University campus for two years now. If memory serves our precinct got 62 votes in the 2006 General, “winning” the “contest” over the other three precincts stationed at the Recreation Center. From then it was all downhill, the lowlight having only 4 or 5 ballots rattling around the ballot transfer box by the end of the IL-14 special Congressional last spring.

Then yesterday we helped 334 young voters cast their ballots, and the precinct next to us tallied close to 600. Continue reading Election Judge Notes