Poll worker fired over touch-screen voting comment (Fl.)

[donsu]

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Local/newEAST01POL082906.htm

A New Smyrna Beach voting equipment inspector picked the wrong place to express her views about controversial new touch-screen voting machines being used for the first time in Volusia County.

Volusia County Supervisor of Elections Ann McFall has fired 76-year-old Drusilla Synal, a poll worker for more than a decade, for opposing the use of the touch-screen machines as she cast her ballot during an early voting session Aug. 23 at the city's library.

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"She was rude, abrupt and loud. She made it clear she was a poll worker," McFall said. "I called (her) the next day. She admitted being opinionated. She admitted as well that she doesn't like the equipment and she doesn't care who knows that."

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"I said I think we need a paper trail," she recalled. "I didn't lose my temper with anyone and no one threw me out."

Synal acknowledged she speaks her mind, but was "dumbfounded" when McFall called and fired her the next day, explaining to Synal that offering her opinion of the machines was "OK at a Winn-Dixie, but not at the polls."

"I'm upset this has become such a big deal and I'm in the middle of it. I figured I could say I didn't want to use it," Synal said of the new voting machine. "I wasn't there as a poll worker. I just went in to vote."
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voting is going to be so much fun this time around

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Thou Shalt NOT

Draw Any Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain!

[DeSwiss]

2. Whoops!

sorry

[rock]

3. "Free speech" costs

[lonestarnot]

4. Welp, she's not IROBOT, and for that she is fired. What a crock!