A better headline would have been: ‘Diligent election clerks and poll workers insure accurate elections in Wisconsin.’
Headlines like, “Poll: Voters mixed on accuracy of elections,” feed into the increasing lack of trust in our elections (March 30).
One had to read to the very end of the article to discover that election clerks have well-defined processes, plus poll workers observing the closing of the polls to insure protected and accurate voting totals. Voter fraud is rare in Wisconsin. None of the story indicated that the Marquette University Law School pollsters asked people where they got their information that made them “believe election clerks are regularly submitting false voting tallies.”
We, the poll workers, must also sign the election result tapes from the voting machines that are turned in to the Elections Commission.
A better headline would have been: “Diligent election clerks and poll workers insure accurate elections in Wisconsin.”
Cheri Briscoe, Milwaukee poll worker for 24 years, Milwaukee
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