Posted on 11/05/2014 4:02:49 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
barrage of automated phone calls offering false instructions to scores of election judges was "a serious attempt to disrupt" Chicago voting operations in the run-up to Tuesday’s vote, election officials said.
Between Friday and Monday, an unknown number of judges — the paid partisan employees tasked with operating polling stations — received the misleading robocalls, according to the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.
“Given the level of response that we received, we suspect it was a large number of people — we don’t know how large,” Jim Allen, board spokesman, said Monday.
Some of the judges received calls informing them that they needed an additional training session before they could work a polling station, board chairman Langdon Neal said. Only one three-hour session is required.
Others were told that they needed to vote a certain way in order to work, though election officials would not say which way the judges were instructed to vote.
Danny Bravman, a Republican judge who will be working Tuesday in the 44th Ward, said he received two automated phone calls — one on Friday, the other on Saturday — from a number with a 224 area code.
The recording featured a man named “Jim,” who told Bravman that he was required to attend an additional training session. Both sessions were at “very out-of-the-way locations,” Bravman wrote in an email to the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, which was released through a Freedom of Information Act request.
“If I call back the number, it says that the message originated from a marketing firm or a paid political organization,” Bravman wrote in his email. “I haven't received any official correspondence about additional training sessions. So it seems rather obvious that someone is impersonating the board of elections.”
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For your eletion fraud list.
NOW is the time to get a national voter I.D. law and put an end to the Democrats’ election fraud.
Chicago Board of Election
Chicago Board of Election
Illegals, criminals, and minorities that vote multiple times would be up in arms over this....I’m all for it!
Ban early voting while we’re at it.
Voter ID is going to be top of the agenda this session in Wisconsin, I’m thinking. :)
Hah! So many missed that I think.
They were probably busy stuffing Democrat ballots into every box they could find. More like, distracted them from cheating.
Don’t stop e-mailing the new Republicans. Investigate the WH is #1 priority.
Crooked political games in Chicago? I don’t believe that for a second.
... c**p. Just broke my sarcasm tag.
Yep. I’m going to be a PITA to every newly elected Senator - no matter WHAT state they are in. We The People put them there and they’d better not forget it!
Let’s get some chit DONE and get as much of the damage reversed as we can, ASAP.
0bama is going to be going on a rampage - count on it. His phone and pen are going to be on FIRE. At least now we have a few Newbies with nothing to lose that will stand up to that POS.
Well, that’s my HOPE, anyway. :)
I’m surprised they did not tell the election judges the election was moved to Wednesday...!
I am no longer surprised by the level of corruption in the democrat party...
I think the party bosses of years ago would blush at the brazen corruption that goes on now...
Even those people didn’t use soviet like tactics.....
A-----MEN!
Will Trey Gowdy’s Benghazi investigation be “Issa-esque” - i.e. the evil criminality is not revealed.
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
‘Others were told that they needed to vote a certain way in order to work, though election officials would not say which way the judges were instructed to vote.’
The fact that they won’t tell takes the guesswork out of it.
I’m not so sure little bath house barry bastard boy even cares enough to fight. He is a community organizer (read a typical commie pinko agitator but not a doer himself). He will whine at an ever increasing shrill level, blaming republicants for obstructing him, while playing more golf, smoking more crack, bedding more ‘boys’ and ignoring more responsibilities. What we are facing, more likely, is a very very perilous time for our heroic military personnel.
But NOT a national ID! Don't need the Gestapo style request "You vill show me your papers, now" coming from the regime's thugs.
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