Election March 4

Texas' Primary Election will be March 4. Soon after I moved to Texas I signed up to be a member of the Travis County Republican Party and started receiving invitations to their weekly party events and action alerts. Early last week I got an email notice saying they really needed election judges and please respond affirmatively. I thought, oh, well I'm new here, never done that before, don't need to start now. Then on Fri I received an email, they really, really need election judges so I called and said I would do it, altho I didn't have a clue what an election judge did.

This morning I got a phone call, the man from the Republican headquarters in Austin said thanks for volunteering, here's what we need. I listened and agreed with all I would need to do, go to 4 hours training, and then I would be the main person at a particular precinct that would ask do you live in Travis county, your party, name, check them in and direct them to the voting machine. Oh, and I need to know stuff in case someone has a question I need to be familiar with the manual to answer correctly, but if I don't know, I'll have a number to call to get an answer. Ok, I'm a little nervous and said I would rather be an alternate judge and he said, yeah, but we aren't getting enough people for you to do that. OK. I get all the info from him I need and he says someone from the office of voters or something would call.

Next I get a call from the director of voters or something or other. He starts giving me more info, I need to go early and pick up some stuff, get everything ready at the precinct, take stuff back to somebody, and oh, also I need to hire my own clerk. Ahhhh. Each party will have there a judge, alternate judge, and a clerk. So I spent some time on the phone trying to get someone to be my clerk. Part of the problem is most of my ward is in Williamson County, and I live in Travis County and the people I know, outside of my neighbors, are church members.

Everyone has their reason (excuse) why they can't help. I wish I had had an excuse for not helping.
I'm quite nervous, but I'm sure it will turn out ok. I hope.