2022 - Nov. 8 Maricopa Co., AZ   - Poll Worker Explains the "Problem" (transcription in description)
Channel: day
Date: 2022-11-11

A short video taken by a voter as a smiling poll worker "explains" there's just a little problem, no big deal, and it'll all be fine. Can't we all just get along, after all?

No comments other than what's recorded, no opinions being made by me, except for my:

Favorite line: "No one's trying to, ah ha ha,  deceive anybody."

Favorite response: "Of *course* not. Not on election day. That'd *never* happen, right? No."

*Transcript*

Poll Worker: "... everybody wants to make sure it reads & everything is fine..." 

Voter 1 - unseen, but may be/probably is taking the video: "Could you repeat that? 

Poll Worker: "I can promise you..." 

Voter 1: "Can you... can you start from the beginning & repeat that?" 

Poll Worker: "Yeah, so what happens is we have two tabulators. One of the tabulators is not working." 

Unseen Voter interjecting: "You need to get rid of the machines!" 

Poll Worker: "OK? The other tabulator is taking about 75% successful. So 25% of 'em are being misread. And it could be a printer issue, um, or it could be the tabulator itself. So when it's misread, you have an option to put it into what's called 'box 3' and it gets read, whether it goes downtown and gets read manually, or it gets re-fed into our tabulator..." 

Voter 1: "We don't wanna adjudicate."

Poll Worker: "... and gets read..." 

Voter 1: "No."

Poll Worker: "... OK? So no one's trying to, ah ha ha, deceive anybody." 

Voter 1: "Of *course* not. Not on election day. That'd *never* happen, right? No."

Poll Worker: "No." walking away 

Voter 1: "That'd *never* happen."

Poll Worker: "No." no longer in view "So, so choices are, ya know, you guys..." 

Voter 2: "Can I ask you a question?" 

Poll Worker: "Sure." 

Voter 2: "If I get up there and that happens to my ballot, can I take my ballot with me and go somewhere else and...?"

Poll Worker: "You cannot leave the premises with the ballot. Sorry. And there's not, it's not -indiscernible-... "

Voter 2: "Because I don't trust it -indiscernible, but sounds like-...going into box 3... it'll never make it down there." 

Voter 1: "No! No way!"

Voter 2: "...It happens all the time." 

Poll worker: "The choice is..." 

Voter 2: "I'll come back." she leaves the line. "I'll go somewhere else."

Poll Worker: "The choice is, the choice is to wait until..."

-End of video-