"My career as an absentee ballot counter for the City of Detroit began under mysterious circumstances.
I came at precisely 1 p.m. last Saturday, as commanded by my official training papers.
My classmates arrived, citizens drawn to public service and the promise of $600 a day.
A woman in a wheelchair.
Two smartly dressed women, looking like pillars of the community, like members of the League of Women Voters.
Imagine their faces when we were abruptly told class was canceled.
“We have enough volunteers,” barked a training supervisor from the office of the Detroit Clerk. “We are no longer accepting people to count absentee ballots on Election Day.”
“I didn't get no call,” wheezed the man with the cane, slumped in a chair and breathing laboriously.
“I've been doing this 20 years, and I didn't get no call. I had to pay to get here.”
The cancellation of class, of course, flew in the face of everything the public is still being told about this election.
Do your duty. Volunteer ($600 a day).
Come to the TCF Center to count!
As of this writing, classes are still being conducted, and calls for volunteers are still going out by way of social media.
“This have something to do with me being here?”
I asked a supervisor, pulling down my mask, assuming he knew me from TV news.
“Yeah, we don't want you here,” he said.
I couldn't be sure if he was serious until he asked: “Who put you up to this?”...Read all!
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