I'm real late with posting this...I've just been busy lately, that's all.

Last week:

• Monday: I finished up stapling the extra page to all of the ballots and put them back in their clasp envelopes. After that, I put mailing labels on blue postcards, copied and tri-folded letters (all of this was for voting supply pick-up), and placed them in the envelopes I typed up last week. I also found out from someone that I might be taking over work for Armstrong County's website on the day of the primary election, to keep it updated throughout the day =)
• Tuesday: I had to take write-in instruction cards and voter instruction cards, and put a certain number of each in separate clasp envelopes for each district; I managed to get 51 districts done for the write-ins.
• Wednesday: I continued putting away write-in cards and, when those were finished, I started working on the voter instruction cards. My boss called me out in the middle of this job to work on counting out punch-card ballots for independents (as the last-minute question is not tied to any particular party, everyone can vote on it) and placing them on top of the Republican/Democratic piles for each district.
• Thursday: I finished counting out the ballots, and then started working on putting all three sets of ballots, write-in envelopes, and a "seal" (a red plastic thing with a wire used to lock the two pieces together, it can only be opened by breaking that wire; the one inside the box is unlocked, and used for sending it back) inside transfer cases (gray metal boxes), closing them, and using another seal to lock the box. I also had to keep track of the seal numbers used for each box (incoming, for the ones inside the boxes, and outgoing, for the ones used to lock the boxes).
• Friday: I finished filling the transfer cases, and had just enough time to get one more voter instruction card set put away.

This week:

• Monday: I continued sorting voter instruction cards, but unfortunately didn't get finished with that today, as I also had to sort laminated ballot pages (the ones used in the voting booths) by their page number, party ("R" for Republican, "D" for Democrat), and district number (01-74).
• Tuesday: I finally managed to finish getting the voter instruction cards put away. I also sorted a few more laminated ballot pages as well - there's not that many left, so I should be almost done with these.
• Wednesday: I worked on getting provisional ballot sets ready - these included green big clasp envelopes (for materials), smaller versions of that envelope without the clasp (for the ballots - 10 per set), a green paper (reconciliation form), normal green envelopes (also for the ballot - 10 per set), white and green paper receipts with a barcode on a label and an identification number (10 per set), and blue and red ballots (five of each per set, and all must be stamped with a green "Provisional Ballot" stamp). I also got the rest of the ballot pages sorted, but after double-checking them, three districts appear to be missing entirely (I marked their locations with a piece of paper and the missing district's number) - it turns out some may have been ruined during lamination, and will have to be redone. There's not too many missing though, so it won't be a problem to put those pages back in after copying and laminating them again.
• Thursday: I continued readying the provisional ballot sets - everything has been counted out and sorted, and I stamped as many ballots as I could for the day (about three-quarters of the entire pile).
• Friday: I finished getting the provisional ballot sets ready. After that job was done, I was asked to get out the envelopes for the specimen ballots I copied earlier and double-check one ballot in each set to make sure the correct pages were included for each district, followed by putting the ballot back in and sealing that district's envelope (they were intentionally left unsealed the first time). After that was done, it was close to the end of the day, so I was given one of the sample ballot-punching devices and started working on punching sample ballots for testing the machines used to count candidates' votes (all three types, Republican, Democrat, and Independent - one of each with everything ending in "1" punched out, two of each with everything ending in "2" punched out, and so on, up to and including ten for everything ending in "0"). It was clogged somewhat, so I tried cleaning out the device used for holding the ballots...And chads were pouring out from the bottom of it in a continuous stream for at least five minutes straight, after which I just gave up on trying to clean it out, and went back to punching the cards. I only got a few punched, but it shouldn't take too long to finish, and I should be able to get that done on Monday.