Monday, September 19, 2016

OBSERVERS

What Observers Are Permitted and/or Not Permitted to Do

Permitted

  • Walk to the Registration, Ballot, and Help Tables without impeding voters or precinct officials
  • Make observations and take notes
  • Report concerns to the Chief Judge
  • Walk outside the voting enclosure to view the curbside voting area or for restroom breaks and phone calls at the discretion of the Chief Judge
  • Make a list of voters who have voted in the precinct by viewing ATV forms at the Ballot Tables
    • Observers may view bound sets of 100 ATV forms but not remove binding
    • Make a list of voters who have cast provisional ballots in the precinct by viewing the Provisional Poll Book


Not Permitted

  • Must not enter the voting enclosure before the polls open at 6:30 am  (This includes before Early Voting starts for the day.)
  • Must not speak to voters
  • Must no speak to Judges or Assistants
  • Must not wear or distribute campaign material
  • Must not stand behind the Registration Table or Help Table because Poll/books/Laptops contain confidential voter information
  • Must not enter the voting booth area
  • Must not interfere with the privacy of a curbside voter while the voter is marking a ballot
  • Must not board a bus or other vehicle containing curbside voters
  • Must not provide voter assistance
  • Must no photograph or video curbside voters
  • Must not look at voter IDs

What mistakes, IF ANY, does the Observer make in this video?