Combing through the papers today, this was perhaps the saddest example of voter disenfrachisement.
One of the oddest voting irregularities occurred in Illinois, where voters at a Chicago precinct were given styluses designed for touch-screen machines instead of ink pens. When voters complained the devices made no marks on their paper ballots, a ballot judge told them the markers were full of invisible ink, the Associated Press reported.
Very discouraging. I think that we do need UN monitored elections. We aren’t much better than some of these countries we criticize.
Are you sure it wasn’t Floriduh? They seem to have weird balloting issues….
Harlan
And, growing up in Chicago wasn’t even slight preparation for moving to Florida – and I had an acquaintance who even owned his own voting machine. A gaming machine company makes most of the non-paper machines – of course, the house wins
You are surprised by voter irregularities in Illinois? Chicago’s unofficial motto is “Vote Early and Often”! On the bright side is the story where I live, McLean County. For the first time ever, Democratic ballots outnumbered Republican ballots. Obama and Clinton got more votes than McCain, Romeny and Huckabee combined. It is being described as a real two-party system for the first time in the history of McLean County and they anticipate that the two-party reality will continue in the future.
what??? i have 2 friends in cali who had bad situations at the polls yesterday. it’s ridiculous.