our elections supervisor is a Democrat. But so much of what goes on is dictated by State Law...and budgetary constraints. For example, by Law every poll worker must receive at least 4 hours of training before an election. The exception is that if you worked the polls doing the same job in a primary election, you don't have to be retrained for that job, that year. But I worked a different job at the polls for the Democratic primary than I will be working tomorrow so I had to go to a second training session. The day I went to training for the general election there was also a training class for the people working the early voting sites....When the lines became horrifically long there just weren't any more poll workers available with the required training. Also by law, poll workers are not allowed to leave the polling place until everyone has voted, the ballots have been counted (in order to justify the count with the scanners) and all the voting equipment has been taken down. The entire problem could have been avoided by having more polling places available. For example, my own precinct assignment was moved from two blocks from my home to 10 blocks away...no big deal, but there was no early vote site in my town.
To be honest, I think if Polk County is indeed hardcore red, you won't have the problems we have here with long lines and thrown away ballots..it's the Blue counties they have targeted....Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade...all large population centers as well.
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