Posted on 03/17/2020 10:29:50 AM PDT by PBRCat
Polls that failed to open. Election judges that failed to show. Promised bottles of hand sanitizer that failed to arrive. And low voter turnout.
With the coronavirus on the loose, Chicago’s elections on Tuesday are looking like a shaky affair.
Barely 2 hours after the polls opened in Chicago, city election officials ripped Gov. J.B. Pritzker for refusing last week to reschedule the whole thing. And, lashing back, Pritzker’s office contended that it had offered Chicago reinforcements — including National Guard troops to work as election judges — but the city failed to take the state up on the offer.
City election board spokesman Jim Allen revealed Tuesday that the city In a March 11 phone call had urged Pritzker’s office to cancel in-person voting today in favor of mail-in ballots, but was told by the governor’s legal team to proceed as planned.
”It was a snowball we could all see coming down the hill,” Allen complained to reporters, referring to the city’s struggles in the last week to be ready for elections in the face of the coronavirus crisis. “Where is the mystery in this?
”Other states are postponing,” Allen added. “They don’t have scenarios where seniors are tweeting and posting comments about being fearful of going into polling places or serving on election day.”
Allen said the city requested that today’s primary elections be postponed mere hours after a global pandemic being announced by the World Health Organization. But, he said, that suggestion was “rejected.”
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Governor Jelly Belly versus Mayor Lighthead! The left, meaning all Chicago TV stations and newspapers will soil themselves trying to decide which to take!
Fear NOT, the voting dead will re-nominate all the Dem incumbents.
Hey as an aside, my monthly gastro doctor appointment will be online for the foreseeable future :)
I HATE the wait time thee so this is good.
I just hope he doesn’t try to do a colonoscopy online :)
I don’t know the internet speed needed to get that scope up there but I bet it’s a lot!!
Had lol at that!
I can hear your doc on the phone, “OK for the next part of your online exam I need you to get a few items together...a short piece of garden hose, a webcam, and oh yeah, a jar of Vaseline”.
The more primaries get delayed, the longer it will take Joe Biden to actually achieve 1,991 delegates.
Additionally, high turnout is said to have benefitted Joe Biden over Bernie as Bernie has a ‘ceiling’, and presuming we will have low turnout from now on through the convention dates, Joe may never get to 1,991....
ROFL!!!
I hope he doesn’t need to remove a polyp once we’re in there!!
Hoping crazy Bernie wins the day!
It’s Chicago. The votes are already counted. Why go through the formality?
Right, if anything is said about scissors, hang up!
DONE!!
Southeastern Illinois small town....Wife and I voted at 10:00am. 4 election officials at table, 3 bottles of hand sanitizer provided.
The staff told me voter turnout about average,.....In and out in 5 minutes.
Just voted here in Loves Park,Ill. About 6 election judges, a small handful of voters. Voting republican in this state is like peeing in the ocean,but it’s all we have.
I looked at NYC live cams, earlier.....I’ve never seen Times Square and the Brooklyn Bridge so empty. Other areas, too.
Looks like folks are staying inside.
Just so strange to see.
:(
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