Thank you to all of the Sonoma County PDA’ers who have already contacted us to volunteer to assist in the Observation of the Vote Count being undertaken by the Sonoma Co. Democratic Party. The Official Canvass of the Vote is part of the Nov. 4 Election Process and will conclude with the Certification of the Vote by the ROV, no later than Dec. 2nd. In the spirit and practice of participatory democracy, the County Democratic Party has observers on hand for every stage of the process. Alice Chan is coordinating this observation effort. Here is a note from Alice to those who have volunteered to date.
Please read — Alice has some specific requests and needs volunteers for specific shifts. If you can help, please contact Alice, as noted below.
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Hello, Election Integrity volunteers. I need a rapid-response team of people who will be able to say “yes I can help” with possibly only 2 or 3 hours’ notice during this week of Nov 17-20. If you are able to help in this way, please read the message below and then let me know as soon as possible, by return email, your day(s) of availability, and a quick contact for you (cell phone or land line that you will be near.) Some of you have already been scheduled for Monday – please forgive this extra message. If you are actually able to sign up for a shift Monday or Tuesday, please let me know that, too.
Thank you all so much for your efforts so far; thank you for your patience with the process of scheduling the observations; and most of all, thank you for your commitment to election integrity in Sonoma County!
We are now in the final crucial week of the vote-counting in Sonoma County, and I need to schedule “observers” on a day-to-day basis over the next four days. We’ll need three three-hour shifts per day, with up to 5 people scheduled for each shift. That means we need up to 15 people per day. No one should volunteer for more than one shift per day.
Here’s the projected schedule, although please remember that we won’t really know what’s happening the next day until the current day’s activity is completed.
MONDAY Nov. 17th:
1% manual tally, all day, three shifts.
9AM to noon
12:00 noon to 3PM
3PM to 5PM.
10% manual tally, all day, three shifts.
9AM to noon
12:00 noon to 3PM
3PM to 5PM.
TUESDAY Nov. 18th:
1% manual tally, all day, three shifts.
9AM to noon
12:00 noon to 3PM
3PM to 5PM.
10% manual tally, all day, three shifts.
9AM to noon
12:00 noon to 3PM
3PM to 5PM.
WEDNESDAY Nov. 19th and THURSDAY Nov. 20th
The ROV will start running all the ballots through the optical scanner on Wednesday, continuing on Thursday.
9AM to noon
12:00 noon to 3PM
3PM to 5PM.
The later in the week we get in this projected schedule, the more it’s subject to change, so please be prepared and patient. Thank you so much!!
Alice Chan
alice@pdsonoma.org
