Poll worker shortage? Have you lot considered slavery?
Over here in Spain all poll workers are just forced to be there. Such a great way to enjoy your day off (elections are always on Sunday over here).
You get a pittance here too. Far from enough to make me wake up early on a Sunday, go there and take part in that farce even if it lasted just one hour, not even close, much less staying there the whole fucking day, then counting the fucking ballots, and counting them again, and again… copying the results by hand more than a dozen times—one for each of the parties’ observer (? Not sure this is the name. Specially one of them was an absolute asshole), and then taking them to the district council in my own fucking car.
Idk, bit different. In that case there’s a reason to have a more random sample, and not volunteers, and you are fulfilling the right of the defendant to a jury of their peers that you might need to use too at some point. But I guess one should be able to opt out of it and then be tried by the judge instead.
Poll worker shortage? Have you lot considered slavery? Over here in Spain all poll workers are just forced to be there. Such a great way to enjoy your day off (elections are always on Sunday over here).
In Germany, it’s usually volunteers, but you may also be drafted in case there is a shortage. However, you get some Euros “refreshment allowance”.
You get a pittance here too. Far from enough to make me wake up early on a Sunday, go there and take part in that farce even if it lasted just one hour, not even close, much less staying there the whole fucking day, then counting the fucking ballots, and counting them again, and again… copying the results by hand more than a dozen times—one for each of the parties’ observer (? Not sure this is the name. Specially one of them was an absolute asshole), and then taking them to the district council in my own fucking car.
That’s harsh, though I guess you could argue it’s no worse than jury service as it’s done here in the UK which is at least two weeks usually.
Idk, bit different. In that case there’s a reason to have a more random sample, and not volunteers, and you are fulfilling the right of the defendant to a jury of their peers that you might need to use too at some point. But I guess one should be able to opt out of it and then be tried by the judge instead.