Posted on 10/14/2010 2:35:39 PM PDT by speciallybland
There are typos and then there are complete and utter catastrophes.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the name of Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney is misspelled "Rich Whitey" on electronic-voting machines in 23 wards -- "about half in predominantly African-American areas." The error only occurs on screens voters would see when they are reviewing their choices (Whitney's name appears correctly on the initial screens), but officials say the error cannot be corrected before election day.
Jim Allen, spokesman for the Chicago Board of Elections, told the Sun-Times he expects 90% of votes on election day to be cast on paper ballots -- minimizing the number of voters who would see the misspelling.
"I don't want to be identified as 'Whitey.' If this is happening in primarily African-American wards, that's an even bigger concern," Whitney told the Sun-Times. The paper says he's considering legal action. "I don't know if this is machine politics at play or why this happened."
The latest Rasmussen poll shows Whitney drawing just 2% of the vote.
Well, with Whitney only drawing 2 percent of the vote, I guess it cannot be said that he will whitewash the election.
Thanks, rabs and speciallybland! It's always a such a treat to see libs beating each other up.
They actually meant to write “White-guy.”
“Funny, you don’t look rich.”
I’m sure it was just an innocent oversight.
Nice. Daley Sr. would be proud that the our rich tradition of shenanigans is continuing in such brilliant fashion.
I think Mayor McLaughlin is the only democrat I respect. Oh and I'm not voting Claypool I'm voting for the GOP. And in the Judy Baar race I'm writing in my 5 pound yorkie as a write in.
Thank you. Adding it to “Weird News” ping. Leading with this:
Unrepentant Domestic Terrorist Behind Anti-Chamber of Commerce Internet Campaign
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2608887/posts
“But one group was well ahead of the curve on this movement to stop the Chamber of Commerce. In fact, they even own the URL “StopTheChamber.com”.
That group is the infamous Velvet Revolution headed by convicted violent criminal and bomber, Brett Kimberlin.”
I'm always reminded of the Heroes episode where the kid changes the election for Nathan Petrelli by manipulating the electronic voting machines.
I'm not advocating that there are children with super powers who can hack voting machines, but I guarantee some democrat knows how to manipulate machines.
Fraud is possible and real on virtually all types of election methods.
Pape and mechanical arms and silicon chips don’t commmite vote fraud.
People commit vote fraud.
I wrote in “Dick Nixon” for some city office once where the incumbent was unopposed. Caused the vote counters problems because Dick wasn’t a registered write in candidate. ;D
I just saw this story on CNN (at the airport — mt TV NEVER is tuned to CNN). After I was done LOL (along with many others), I suggested he have his ballot name “fixed” to “Poe Darkie.”
At least his name wasn’t ‘Graham Cracker’.
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