[EL] Adventures in Voter ID

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Edward Still <still at votelaw.com> wrote:
>
> Being a poll official is a tough job. I know because I have served as one.
> But it is made tougher by training that tells poll workers that the purpose
> of an ID is to check my address.

I suspect this might be some combination of their wanting to see the
address to look you up more easily in the roster (if it is
address-indexed) and a complex slightly-adversarial social interaction
where the pollworker noticed then that your ID was different from all
the others they had seen that day... then they tried to get you to
"fix" that condition by asking you to show them the version of the ID
they had seen all day.  Training is hard and often the exact details
of policy, procedure and technology (the format of an ID card) can get
lost to pollworkers after they ingrain the very mechanical tasks they
are assigned.

best, Joe

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Media, Culture and Communication
New York University
https://josephhall.org/