Off With Their Heads!

Man, this judging stuff can be hard.

The process for doing basic stuff wasn't too bad -- setting up the machines, printing doc to show (!) that they hadn't been hacked, shutting them down at the end of the day, that kind of thing. And the things they said for which you're kidding, right? was the only plausible answer sort-of made sense, since, distilled, they boiled down to You can't say anything to a voter that implies there is something that they have to do; you can only answer their questions, show them how to do what they ask about. And even that, carefully; the last thing you say to a voter is that they're done when they see the Thank You For Voting screen, but you can't say 'do this to get to that screen', they have to ask you 'how do I get to that screen'.

But what I really liked was when one of the trainers said that we couldn't break the machine.... and then we broke it.