I worked from 7.30am until after 9.30pm as a polling assistant.
I was one of those people who helped you find the right queue, made sure you put your green paper in the green box and white paper in the white box ( which some of you seemed a bit challenging by), listened to you all moaning about the size of the ballot paper while keeping my smile on, marked you off the register and gave you the speal about how to fill in your ballot paper formally, which many of you seemed to ignore (and if you think it was boring listening to it once you should try saying it a couple of thousand times!).
Then after the doors had closed at 6pm I was one of the ones who unfolded, sorted and counted your ballot papers so you could get your results as quickly as possible.
This morning my knees and hips are aching from standing most of the day, I'm dog tired, my shoulders are sore from unfolding and checking those monster senate papers and I have multiple paper cuts all over my fingers. BUT it was mostly fun and very interesting and I'm pretty sure I'll apply to work again next election
@*elizabeths-mum* wrote:
Our guard had a yardstick to push the votes down. I had assumed it was the schools but it was packed up and sent back with everything else.
We had to make do with a broom handle 
We didn't get any fancy yardstick 
Unfair I say!
And that woman who filled in her **bleep** form three **bleep** times? I think she visited us too 
Her, and her friend, who didn't **bleep**n want to **bleep**n vote for any of the **bleep**s. She was fun, especially with her two little kids in tow - NOT
