I’m in the process of becoming an Election Inspector, which means that I’ll be running a polling place and I’ll be in charge of a team of poll workers. It’s my first time doing this.

Will my polling location make any mistakes / rule violations on election day 2024?

I’ve completed the two hour Inspector training already and there were a ton of potential things that we could do wrong. Will anyone working at my polling place (myself included, of course) make a mistake or break a rule?

This will be subjective, so I won’t be betting here.

A non-exhaustive list of mistakes / violations:

• Opening a seal which wasn’t supposed to be opened at a particular time.

• Scanning a provisional ballot (which aren’t supposed to get scanned).

• Giving someone the wrong (type of) ballot.

• Placing the Vote Here sign incorrectly.

• Someone leaving before we give the votes back (high schoolers are exempt, per the rules).

• …etc.

I’m not going to count very small violations like:

• Someone’s name tag falling off (and they get another one).

• Someone quickly pulling out their phone (though if it’s repeated, I may count that).