Posted on 02/06/2008 10:04:35 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Voters are told pen had 'invisible ink' BLANK BALLOTS | Staffers try to reach 20 who thought they'd voted
February 6, 2008 BY ANNIE SWEENEY Staff Reporter/asweeney@suntimes.com
When it comes to election shenanigans, Chicago has been accused of just about everything.
But invisible ink?
Twenty voters at a Far North Side precinct who found their ink pens not working were told by election judges not to worry.
It's invisible ink, officials said. The scanner will count it.
But their votes weren't recorded after all.
"Part of me was thinking it does sound stupid enough to be true,'' said Amy Carlton, who had serious doubts but went ahead and voted anyway.
As it turns out, Carlton was one of 20 voters at the precinct who were given the wrong pen to use. They were also then told, apparently by a misinformed judge, that the pens have invisible ink, elections officials said.
As a result, the votes were not counted. But officials insisted there were no dirty tricks involved.
"This one defies logic,'' said Jim Allen, a spokesman for the Chicago Board of Elections. "You try to anticipate everything. But certain things just ... they go beyond any kind of planning you can perform.''
By late afternoon, five voters had been contacted and told to come back to the polling place to vote again. And elections staff had left messages at the homes of the rest, Allen said.
Carlton and Angela Burkhardt, another voter who was told the same invisible ink story, spent a good part of the day calling and e-mailing the Board of Elections to get answers.
"I am furious and devastated and I just feel stupid,'' Carlton said. "I feel so angry.''
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Think that’s funny? There were some nitwits here in Orange County, FloriDUH who saw people voting in “Orange County” California yesterday, and called the Supervisor of Elections to say that they wanted to go vote too, but needed to know where they were supposed to go.
They were told, “sorry - you’re a week late - the FloriDUH primary was on January 29.”
I have a feeling the whole invisible ink pens snafu will be quickly hushed up...it doesn’t serve the mainstream media’s agenda. Same with Chelsea’s early morning electioneering and a dozen of other small incidents that will go unnoticed until the “right” one comes along at which time the media and self-appointed speakers will blow it out of proportion and make false claims of evidence and patterns of disenfranchisement.
I heard about that on our local news...all i could think was - glad I live in Seminole! :)
Don’t tell them about New Jersey!
Why didn’t they use pencils?
Well Seminole is still reliably Republican. :)
Well Seminole is still reliably Republican. :)
NJ? I missed it. What happened?
Isn’t there an “Orange County” in NJ, too?
Yes, we are- and even some of us Republicans are conservative:)
Oh, yeah! Now I gotcha!
Well, I let both ‘RATS and RINOS know that I view the big government legislation they want to pass as a threat to my freedoms.
Peace isn’t the absence of war, peace is the presence of freedom and justice and an absence of a threat to either of them.
If they want unity and peace, they had better stop attempting to undermine the Constitution by using the arm of government to enforce their personal beliefs and moral conscience on the rest of us.
There are plenty of militant Christians who would have no qualms whatsoever in living under a dictatorship (and forcing the rest of us to, also) if they thought that their dictator was a “Christian”.
They can go to [fill in the blank] :)
BWAHAHAA!!! Here in Oreegon, we’ve got vote-by-mail, and every time we get something passed that the Libs don’t like, they start disqualifying signatures or find a friendly judge to overturn. I half expect to start getting my ballots mailed back to me with big red check marks on the ones I get “wrong.”
BWAHAHAHA!
"I worry about the other people who were there,'' she said. "Maybe [they] can't get off work. I am a person of privilege. I can go back. What if you couldn't?"
A "person of privilege". Okay, now I know for sure that they're Democrats, not that there was ever much doubt. Too bad she doesn't have the "privilege" of a functioning brain.
***snicker***
Paper ballots in Santa Clara County in California did yesterday. We've been using touch screens for a few years but went back to paper for this election.
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