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On Monday Oct. 18, 2010 In Chicago Crook County recalled voting machines that already contained votes from early voting which started Oct. 11, 2010. They brought out new machines to the polling places that had “00” ballots on them. Gee I wonder what happened to the previous vote counts?
Ward Room
Pat Quinn, Rich Whitney, What’s In a Name?
Board of Elections Apologizes, Will Reprogram to Remove “Whitey”
Board of Elections Apologizes, Will Reprogram to Remove “Whitey”
Rich Whitney is not a Rich Whitey.
But a spelling snafu on Illinois electronic voting machines threatens to sour voters on the Green Party gubernatorial candidate.
The Chicago Board of Elections apologized Thursday to the Green Party and Whitney for the spelling error, which affected every voting machine already deployed. The board will now reprogram more than 2500 machines before they are sent to polling places next week. The machines already in use will be programmed after that.
Green Party chair Phil Huckelberry said he isn’t satisfied with the board’s response, but admitted there’s not much else that can be done.
The Board of Elections said Wednesday they mistakenly printed Whitney’s name as “Whitey” on electronic-voting machines in 23 wards, including about half in African-American communities.
Whitney’s name is spelled correctly on the first screen showing all the candidates names, but when voters check who they voted for, “Whitey” will appear, said Jim Allen, spokesman for the Chicago Board of Elections.
“This is a difficult situation,” Allen said. “The important thing is the name is spelled correctly where it counts, and that’s where people are making the selection.”
The Chicago Sun-Times reports a “candidate-neutral” list will hang in polling places with all candidates’ names spelled correctly.
That’s not good enough for the candidate with the misspelled name in all 54 Early Voting locations.
“Either this is intentional or it’s gross negligence. Either way, it’s more than very troubling and someone needs to take responsibility,” Whitney said in a phone conversation late Thursday.
Whitney, who’s running against Pat Quinn, Bill Brady and Scott Lee Cohen, is weighing whether to sue to get his name spelled correctly on the electronic-voting machines.
BY Ivanna Hampton // Thursday, Oct 21, 2010 at 02:33 CDT
I don't listen to Savage much anymore what with law school and all. Guess I'll share what I posted earlier today, if interested...
'Tea party' hopefuls target Education Department: Candidates renew call to abolish Carter-era agency
My answer:
Most of the cabinet should be abolished. We'd all be better off. Also, "regulatory agencies" under the executive branch should be abolished since they are an unconstitutional legislature making laws under the executive branch.
Milton Friedman, on Reagan's advisory panel, argued persuasively for these things, howbeit, not persuasively enough since these hideous departments and agencies are still with us.
The rule is, it’s easy to create a governmental department or agency but next to impossible to terminate it. Governmental hypocrisy, lying, self interest, money, and power are at the heart of the self-perpetuation of these government agencies and departments. You have to blast them out with the equivalency of tons of (political) TNT.
God Bless.