Hartwood Precinct ready to open at 6am, 3/3/2020: Robert Bady, Debbie Bittinger, Bob Jankovits, Judy Feather, Heather Smithson, Amy Gardner, Margery Schafer, Edwin Ridout. By closing time at 7pm, we’d checked in 898 of our 5,199 registered voters and by 7:15pm reported these results: Joe Biden 487, Bernie Sanders 195, Michael Bloomberg 111, Elizabeth Warren 69, and 34 votes divided among the remaining 10 names on the ballot.
Ready to open, 5:55am, Tuesday November 5th, 2019: John & Lois Steiner, Debbie Bittinger, Bob Jankovits, Judy Miller, Judy Feather, Electoral Board Secretary Gloria Chittum, Edwin Ridout. We checked in 2,402 of our ~5000 registered voters, and they voted on 9 state or local races and one transportation bond issue.
Hartwood Precinct, Stafford, Virginia, 11 June 2019, a few minutes before we opened at 6am. Bob Jankovits, Debbie Shellhammer, John Steiner, Debbie Bittinger, Lois Steiner, Judy Miller, Edwin Ridout. Total ballots by our 7pm closing time: 128, about 9.8 per hour (versus 236 per hour last November).
John & Lois Steiner, Vance Corbett, Judy Miller, Judy Feather, Bob Jankovits, and visiting electoral board secretary Gloria Chittum. I used the self-timer but failed to bring a suitable tripod. Five minutes afterwards began our 13-hour shift serving 3,070 voters, about 236 per hour, or four per minute. We often had short lines, but nobody had to wait more than a few minutes.
Simultaneous primary elections for Democratic nomination for US Congress and Republican nomination for US Senate (but you can only vote in one). We counted 139 D ballots, 404 R ballots, and 543 voters, about 10% of our precinct’s registered voters.
Judy M, John & Lois S, Judy F, Vance C, Gloria C, Edwin R
Hartwood Precinct: election officials Mike Rose, Yvette Fowler, Bob Jankovits, Edwin Ridout, John & Lois Steiner, Gloria Chittum (Secretary of the Electoral Board), Brad Sullivan. We had 752 voters between 6am and 7pm (compared to 3,430 at the general election last November).
Stafford County Precinct 101, at Hartwood Presbyterian Church,5:39am, Tuesday November 8, 2016. Our largest team yet: Phil, Bob, Cat, Vance, Fran, Dick, Hedy, David, Judy M, Debbie, Mal, Rosalind, Lois, Yvette, John. I failed to get myself into the picture this time, so fraudulently pasted myself in on the right from last November’s picture. We had 3,430 voters between 6am and 7pm, or 263 voters per hour. They voted Trump over Clinton by more than 2 to 1. We timed the visits of ten random voters each chosen about an hour apart and found the average visit was under 5½ minutes. But there were 100 voters in line when we opened at 6am, and the voter we timed then was with us 21 minutes.
5:50am, just before opening the polls, Hartwood Precinct election officials John Steiner, Brad Sullivan, Debbie Shellhammer, Bob Jankovits, Lois Steiner, and me in the middle. On right, Gloria Chittum, secretary of the county electoral board. After 2¼ voters per minute for 13 hours, we submitted our unofficial results to the registrar about 15 minutes after we closed the polls at 7pm.
Working the polls at Hartwood Church
November 5th, 5:55am, all set up and ready to open the polls at Hartwood Presbyterian: Judy M, Lois S, Bob J, Judy F, Michelle H, Harry C, Debbie C, Edwin R. The polls closed at 7pm. At 7:33pm we reported results to the registrar: 1,950 ballots cast by about 45% of our precinct’s registered voters. Cucinelli got 1,285. McAuliffe got 550. Sarvis got 109. We finished documenting and packing up by 9:15pm. I finished delivery, unloading, and reporting at the courthouse about 9:45pm. Gave no thought to G. Fawkes.
By lunchtime the next day, the State Board of Elections was displaying this:
By the end of the month, the State Board of Elections was preparing plans to subpoena an unknown number of election officials to require them to assist in a recount, which might take as many as six days in December.