Questions from the film

Who is Doris Ann Sadler?

 

• What problem is she trying to resolve at the beginning of the

film?

 

• What does she do to get this issue resolved?

 

There are a number of training sessions before the election.

• What types of training sessions are mentioned in the film?

 

• What do these volunteers need to know?

 

• Who trains the volunteers?

 

• How many Inspectors are needed at each precinct? What does an

Inspector do?

 

• What do the Commissioners do?

 

• Who educates the public on how to use the voting machines?

 

• What jobs do other volunteers do during the days before the election?

 

Who is David Woo and what are his responsibilities?

Explain:

• Voting machines

 

• What has to be done to prepare them for use?

 

• Who delivers them?

 

• Where do these machines go during the election?

 

• What are some different types of ballots and why are they used?

 

• Ballot boxes, ballots

 

• Voting Kits

 

• What materials are in these kits?

 

Explain:

• Poll book

 

• Provisional Ballots

 

• Certificate of Error

 

• What is early voting? What is absentee voting? Why is it important?

 

• Discuss other problems encountered before Election Day. How

were these problems resolved in the film?

 

 

Election Eve

 

What are some of the problems

that can occur on Election

Eve?

 

How are these problems resolved?

 

• Distribution of ballot boxes and

kits.

 

• Role of volunteers

 

• Role of Clerks’ Office employees

 

• Location of absentee ballots

 

• Clearing up “congressional district

split” (what is a “split” precinct)

 

What do the volunteers do on

Election Eve?

 

Election Day

 

List and discuss potential Election

Day problems.

 

• Communications

 

• Voter Registration issue (voters

purged as dead)

 

• Voting machine problems

 

• What do the volunteers do on Election

Day?

 

• What kind of volunteer (election

worker) errors can occur?