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?