So my snobbish city Omaha side was about to have a good old laugh at this and, you know, look down my nose at this as I've never heard of this.
And so I'm reading along and, like, Nebraska law allows election officials to recruit the first person who enters a polling place to help staff it for the remainder of the day.
So they do that there.
Something to the first person who walks in the door, it just struck me the blatant unfairness of that.
It's like, and somewhat, I don't, I guess it's not like irony.
It's what is it that the person who's probably going in first is thinking to get this out of the way.
They've particularly maybe prioritized getting in there first thing.
And then by law and the...
I've never heard this before.
And again, I love...
This seems like one of those cutesy things that every two years there'd be a story about here.
I'm familiar with Hastings Roots myself.
So, you know, Hall County, that's not exactly the middle of nowhere by our Nebraska standards, the way it could be.
And yeah, someone could go in there and by law be able...
We're the only state that does this.
And so as I'm having a laugh about this and slapping my knee... and looking down at them over having to utilize this, the story notes that Hall County will become the third county in the state that actually does it with Douglas and Sarpy as the other two.
And we do it a lot.
And we don't do the first person who enters a polling place to help staff it for the remainder of the day.
And that's really the difference.
So Douglas County, you know, like you can be summoned basically just like jury duty by state law.
They do try and mix the different parties, the non-Democrat, Republican ones and whatever.
But you're notified by mail approximately 70 days before an election and then have to do four elections.
You have to be paid by your job.
So my snobbish city Omaha side was about to have a good old laugh at this and, you know, look down my nose at this as I've never heard of this.
And so I'm reading along and, like, Nebraska law allows election officials to recruit the first person who enters a polling place to help staff it for the remainder of the day.
So they do that there.
Something to the first person who walks in the door, it just struck me the blatant unfairness of that.
It's like, and somewhat, I don't, I guess it's not like irony.
It's what is it that the person who's probably going in first is thinking to get this out of the way.
They've particularly maybe prioritized getting in there first thing.
And then by law and the...
I've never heard this before.
And again, I love...
This seems like one of those cutesy things that every two years there'd be a story about here.
I'm familiar with Hastings Roots myself.
So, you know, Hall County, that's not exactly the middle of nowhere by our Nebraska standards, the way it could be.
And yeah, someone could go in there and by law be able...
We're the only state that does this.
And so as I'm having a laugh about this and slapping my knee... and looking down at them over having to utilize this, the story notes that Hall County will become the third county in the state that actually does it with Douglas and Sarpy as the other two.
And we do it a lot.
And we don't do the first person who enters a polling place to help staff it for the remainder of the day.
And that's really the difference.
So Douglas County, you know, like you can be summoned basically just like jury duty by state law.
They do try and mix the different parties, the non-Democrat, Republican ones and whatever.
But you're notified by mail approximately 70 days before an election and then have to do four elections.
You have to be paid by your job.
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