Cubicles in voting stations?

Albereth said:
We had 3 cubicles. Okay, they were placed so you didn't have people sneaking up on you to copy your work but why did they have more than one? The process was so idiotically slow. One person was let into the room at a time. The slowest point was checking your name off the list by someone who didn't know the alphabet. Inking the thumb and stamping the id book was quick as was getting the pieces of paper.

So - unless you can read off a name, check the id number and draw a line through it all quicker than I can draw two crosses we have too many cubicles. I guess there was a tender to provide cardboard things.

What they should do is have more people manning the slowest part of the process
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My voting station seemed to work quite fast except for the old people/parents slowing down the queue when they skipped to the front

Crossing off of names and checking ID was quite efficient at the voting station, including stamping of the ballots. We had 5 at a time in the cubicles taking their time with the voting.
 
Agreed.

They crossed off my mom's name when my dad voted so she had to explain to them its her husband so they had to cross out his name when she voted.



Albereth said:
We had 3 cubicles. Okay, they were placed so you didn't have people sneaking up on you to copy your work but why did they have more than one? The process was so idiotically slow. One person was let into the room at a time. The slowest point was checking your name off the list by someone who didn't know the alphabet. Inking the thumb and stamping the id book was quick as was getting the pieces of paper.

So - unless you can read off a name, check the id number and draw a line through it all quicker than I can draw two crosses we have too many cubicles. I guess there was a tender to provide cardboard things.

What they should do is have more people manning the slowest part of the process
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At our station there were 4 tables for names being crossed off, divided alphabetically. I am "V" so I was at table 4. We had 6 cubicles, and at least 3 people were waiting to vote.
Our cubicles were oriented with the backs to the wall, so we all had privacy. They were angled slightly so the gentleman ushering people to different cubicles could see if there was someone at a cubicle or not.

For me, the two slowest parts were: When I arrived, I didn't have the registration stamp from the locale in my ID because I've gotten a new ID since I registered. I had to stand in a separate queue first where they scanned my ID to confirm that I am registered at that particular polling station. The second slow part was when they checked my ID book ID number against my ID number on the name list. Apparently so many numbers are very confusing so it took three attempts to verify my ID number, the third time the second person at the table took my ID book and read the number out loud to the first person who had the name list.
 
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