Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Another Poor M post
He has a job with the local board of elections. He used to be a poll worker, then a member of the electoral board, and then the electoral board secretary (the one who runs the elections in the county). He gave up that job to run for County Treasurer, a race he lost. He was out of the business for two election cycles and then this year the current electoral board secretary asked him to be custodian of the new electronic voting machines. He's responsible for their care and functioning.

Today he was on call. Unfortunately because of that he had to make his shopping run last night. After he put Emma to bed (that's his preference). He got home at 3:00 a.m. I woke up around 4:30 a.m. and needed a drink of water. I found him sacked out on the couch downstairs. I go back to bed and actually get back to sleep. The phone rings 5:30 a.m. The the pollworkers in our precinct couldn't get their machine to work. He told the guy some possible fixes on the phone. They tried them and then called back. So M threw on his clothes and went down there. It was exactly what he told them on the phone, he just had to do it for them. Then they ran into another problem he fixed for them. While he's there another precinct calls in with the exact same problem. After that everyone seemed to do OK.

Right he's snoring on the couch beside me. Shocking, I know.
Written at 10:13 PM by Highlandgal.
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