Things Elections Ontario turns out to have a procedure to deal with

[james_davis_nicoll]

Apparently I was so tired at the end of election day I forgot to sign my second time card....

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[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

What manner of procedure did they perform on you?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Tracking me down to ask if I minded if my superviser signed it for me, saving me the trouble of a bus trip out past Westmount.

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

how refreshingly painless, civil, and reassuringly Canadian of them.

I sometimes wonder how different it would be here south of the border if our local, state, and federal systems were to acquire such a tradition.

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

Did you warn them of the possible consequences of identifying oneself as you to the nearby portions of reality?

--Dave "

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Did you warn them of the possible consequences of identifying oneself as you to the nearby portions of reality?

--Dave "<sfx: hands doing the BOOM motion near lips>" DeLaney

[jennlk]

Snerk. I've done that. (The procedure I got was the Clerk of Elections asking if I was going to be home at such-and-such a time as she was going to be going by my house on her way to turn in the time cards, and if not, she'd bring it to the next meeting we would both be at and I could sign it then.)

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised that you forgot. We don't have to sign anything at the end of the election day to get paid any more. There used to be paperwork to do for that and then they'd send our checks out the next time the county commissioners signed checks, usually weeks later. People often forgot to do the paperwork and people were annoyed at how long it took to get paid. Now they make up the checks for the people they expect to be working ahead of time and actually deliver them when they come to check on how things are going during the day and then we joke for a while about how we can all leave since we've been paid. In general, I don't think getting paid provides much motivation for working at our elections. $100 for over 14 hours of work with no real breaks is not exactly good pay.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Elections Ontario pays better than that. (http://wemakevotingeasy.ca/en/working-for-the-election.aspx)

[dewline.livejournal.com]

*blinks in amazement*

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I was pleasantly surprised when they insisted I could not volunteer but rather had to be paid.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I was pleasantly surprised to see the per diem for poll clerks!

[jennlk]

Pretty good. :) We get $10/hr for work or training, $12 if precinct chair or co-chair. Lots of people only work part of the day, so a flat-rate doesn't work....