A “slate card” is a small card handed out by volunteers at polling places urging voters to support the candidates listed on the cards. In 2014, 17,412 people voted in Carbon County in the congressional and gubernatorial election. Presuming approximately the same number will vote this election, you’d need that many cards provided that every polling place was covered from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m by dedicated volunteers. That is unlikely.
This number is also assumes that every voter takes a card without walking past you and telling you where you can stick your slate card when he finds out you are a Democrat. It also presumes that Democrats angry at Trump and Republicans angry at Democrats who are angry at Trump don’t jack up the totals.
Today we picked up a box of slate cards from the printer, and I have spent the evening dividing them into stacks of 100s to distribute to the volunteers. The cards list six candidates: Wolf, Fetterman, Casey, Denny Wolff, John Yudichak, and Kara Scott. I know one of those will win, and I have high hopes for the other five. (Yudichak has no opponent.)
If voters were rational and voted for the most intelligent, most reasonable, and most decent candidate in each race, all six would win. I know four of the Republican opponents, and they are a disgrace to their party and the voters. (I don’t know Bartos.)
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