More funky political schtuff.
Ooops! Aurora, IL voting goes so wrong, all the election workers may, rightly, lose their jobs
In the wake of numerous reported problems across the city’s polling places Tuesday, Aurora Mayor Tom Weisner sharply criticized the Aurora Election Commission’s performance and called for “broad and swift” changes at the agency.
He even went so far as to suggest doing away with the 74-year-old election authority entirely.
Well, at least they haven’t been accused of blatantly lying to voters.
Yet.
Voters are told pen had “invisible ink”
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.
And after you’re done voting the pen will turn into a helicopter to take you home.
To Idiot-land!
But at least they were voting on the correct day
Across Virginia, people showed up at polling places Tuesday expecting to vote in presidential primaries that are still a week away.
By Tuesday evening, the State Board of Elections had received about 700 calls, most of them voters demanding to know why their polling places were cosed.
Agency spokeswoman Susan Pollard says that’s several times the normal daily call volume.
Twenty-four states picked presidential nominees in what’s become known as Super Tuesday, but Virginia wasn’t one of them.
Virginia’s Republican and Democratic primaries are Feb. 12, next Tuesday.
I saw a story, I don’t remember where, about a guy in Florida showing up to his polling place to vote this Tuesday.
Dude needs to watch more news and read The Huffington Post less.
Speaking HuffPo, their favored Repub candidate, John McCain-Feingold (R-Panderville) might not do so well here in Washington as it was recently released that he flies around on some European piece of crap Airbus A320.
Real American candidates fly on Boeing aircraft only.
The Wife just swung in to tell me that Romney is dropping out.
“McCain/Huckabee 08”
That’s not just the tunage for today, I am seriously beginning to believe that I died, went south and no one bothered to tell me.
So here’s another one.
Give ’em a click and release some frustration.
If you don’t already own them, redeem yourself and recover from that oversight. The Broken album. Buy it.