Believe it or not, that is the actual headline. From the original article.
Volusia County Supervisor of Elections Ann McFall has fired 76-year-old Drusilla Synal, a poll worker for more than a decade, for opposing the use of the touch-screen machines as she cast her ballot during an early voting session Aug. 23 at the city’s library.
McFall said Synal began to “announce to everyone in the polling place” her dislike of the touch-screen voting machines and was asked to leave by the precinct manager.
“She was rude, abrupt and loud. She made it clear she was a poll worker,” McFall said. “I called (her) the next day. She admitted being opinionated. She admitted as well that she doesn’t like the equipment and she doesn’t care who knows that.”
Synal’s reply, Synal acknowledged she speaks her mind, but was “dumbfounded” when McFall called and fired her the next day, explaining to Synal that offering her opinion of the machines was “OK at a Winn-Dixie, but not at the polls.”
“I’m upset this has become such a big deal and I’m in the middle of it. I figured I could say I didn’t want to use it,” Synal said of the new voting machine. “I wasn’t there as a poll worker. I just went in to vote.”
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I diaried this because of ongoing irregularities in the Volusia County Elections Office. Let’s give a shout and fill her e-mail box with BOO-Ann, Hooray-Free Speech. You can reach her at, amcfall@co.volusia.fl.us
