I watched the Warroom yesterday with Fincum from AZ on it. He said that there is a hard end date the team needs to be vacated from the Center they are doing the count in. He said end of business on the 13th because they have to be out by the 14th. I missed the month, I'm thinking May but let's assume June because I did hear they had 40 days to finish at one point. Also he said they were going to go to a 20 hour work day from whatever they are doing right now, which looks to be 12 hours as I follow it through out the day. Now, we are in day 5 of the counting and I can tell that the teams are getting faster at their job, they obviously have worked out many of the issues you would expect at start up. That being said, you can see from camera 3 that they are just finishing up the 2nd pallet, which is confirmed by looking at the boxes already counted in camera 2. At this pace they will need about 90 more days of counting to finish the pallets we can see lined up in camera 3. Clearly I'm not the only person seeing this issue here because they have already announced the increased work day. They are going to have to go to 24/7 soon, which means double the workforce, if they have any hope of completing within the timeline specified. I'm wondering if this is some sort of head fake to keep eyes on this facility while other stuff is going on? Everyone is acting like this is for real, and it should be for real, but they aren't getting the job done as it's currently set up. Any ideas along these lines?
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They need to be out by May 14th as I hear. IMO, considering I estimated labor for special, one-off projects for a living, that just viewing the pace, it looks as though they need more time, more people or another shift to make the deadline.
Too much loitering and downtime IMO.
May 14th is going to be a pipe dream even at 24/7 unless these folks get their shit in one bag pretty quick. One big issue I see is that it takes too long between the time the table gets done with one box and the start of the next. They all stop, then the box is organized, sealed, signed for, returned to the ballot pen and another one is retrieved. Then they spend another 5-10 mins getting the new box/ballots ready before they start the table audit up again. It's maddening to watch.
OK, try to follow along here with me. They have to complete the audit by the night of the 13th of May, you with me so far? That date is 2 weeks away. They have been auditing for 5 days as of tonight and have only 2 of the pallets counted out of the 50 or so that you can clearly see in the camera.
Now, do you or do you not see a problem here? I'm not mad, nor am I "ignorant", nor do I have an ulterior motive. I'm trying to constructively point out what is going to fast become an unsolvable problem if not acted upon. Plus you have no idea who I am or what jobs I've held in my past nor do you know those of the volunteers, who I'm guessing are being paid by Cyber Ninjas, not that it should matter either way. Why is it that the second someone points out an issue he is considered a bad guy or someone with a bad motive? This is a legit problem if it doesn't get corrected soon. Who are you going to bitch at if they are forced out before this gets done and the audit is rendered null & void?
Bingo....
At almost any time you view ANY camera, at least half the people seem to be doing nothing to move the ball down the court. There appears to be no overall sense of urgency, focus or leadership. I am concerned.
My idea would be to add one more worker to each table, he/she would be responsible for having ballots ready to be counted immediately upon the first box being done and returning the already counted ballots back to the pen. Essentially the interface between the pen and the table but also responsible for organizing each box as it's completed. That would streamline the process and probably save an enormous amount of time. Someone needs to step in an fix whatever the problems are that are resulting in these delays.
I agree. Management needs to step in an make some changes, quickly.