10-23-2012, 10:39 AM
If the Clerk learned shortly before the primary that there would be blue flu absences, why did she not contact all the people who had worked elections in the past and had not signed up for this one? Surely there is a pool of experienced people out there. I, for example was a precinct official for many years and later 'graduated' to a VAO (voters assistance official) and only stopped because the long day was too physically grueling for my aging bod. But if I had known of the problem I would have toughed it out and worked the polls. How many others like that? Why did she not take advantage of options that remained to her? Did she just not think of that as a partial solution to her staff shortage?