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Related: About this forumCalls to election judges a 'serious attempt to disrupt' voting - Chicago only
http://politics.suntimes.com/article/chicago/calls-election-judges-serious-attempt-disrupt-voting/mon-11032014-826pmThis would help pukes like Rauner * Dirty tricks starting from here on if he is elelcted......
A 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 Tuesdays 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 dont 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,
A spokeswoman for the Cook County Clerks office said some suburban Cook County judges also received robocalls. But she added that the suburban election judges disregarded them because the information pertained specifically to Chicago judges.
Neal said he couldnt recall an instance of this happening before in his 18 years as chairman. He added that the matter is under investigation.
Polls opened late .People on their way to work trying to vote were told to come back an hour later - as if that can happen when you are on your way to work
Look at the dem dists targeted
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Calls to election judges a 'serious attempt to disrupt' voting - Chicago only (Original Post)
lunasun
Nov 2014
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shenmue
(38,537 posts)1. Please let there be federal charges
This stinks!
lunasun
(21,646 posts)2. the ballots taken after close will be provisional ballots only
just what i expected from dirty Rauner
Snarkoleptic
(6,027 posts)3. And NBC just called it or Rauner.
WTF?!?