Seeing as new HAVA (Help America Vote Act) compliant equipment being distributed to all the states in the U.S. I have been spending a lot of time training poll workers on the new equipment. I generaly take a few pictures of the group I’m training so here are some from a session this last week. There were around 60 poll workers in this particular training session.

The general age trend for poll workers in the united states seems to be retired senior citizens. There is quite a demand for younger poll workers.

This group is installing the paper audit trail.

Here we have a group starting up their machine & printing the zero report.

This curious group is voting on fun races we have prepared as a demonstration. We call it the Famous Names election. Everyone tends to get excited when they actualy get an oportunity to cast votes on the electronic voting terminals.

This group is preparing to end their election and put the machine away.

I think it’s fun training. We generaly have a pretty good time. Anywho. If any of you have questions about the Diebold voting equipment, I know just about everything there is to know about all the hardware & software so feel free to ask.