Election Day shops.....

These are not mystery shops at all. The news organization is Reuters, which is working with Ipsos, a research organization, to collect the data. Headway is the company that's handling the hiring, just as they do for other companies and other types of positions.

I'm not an election agent for them, but a bit higher up the food chain. Won't mention the state here, even though it's not the one I live in.

They have been adding agents like crazy. Each agent is supposed to go through a training and upload mock data via smartphone to make sure they know how to do it correctly.

It's true that in some areas the vote counts are done quickly and posted online quickly, but keep in mind that problems reporting the results can and do happen. For a news agency like Reuters, having folks out in the field is good insurance in case a city or town's system runs into electronic or other problems.

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I'm taking Election Day off and will spend it as a poll watcher since I didn't get chosen for one of these assignments.

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Training completed, passed the test, credentials received, and I'm ready to go!

In case you were wondering, my evening as an Election Agent went off without a hitch. My assignment was 3 polling locations. I was lucky enough to hit each one before they had closed up shop. I left the house at 6:25pm to head to my first location and when I was "released" from duty after all my results had been reported and received it was 8:39pm. Not too shabby, imo

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How did these voter shops go? What did it entail and for how long? Was it worth it?

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> How did these voter shops go? What did it entail
> and for how long? Was it worth it?

I believe I'm the only one that complete the election day shop. If you read through the thread curiousone, you'll see how the process went for me. Because of where I live and how my state (NH) reports polling results, it was definitely worth it for me.

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