Kathianne
02-06-2008, 09:37 PM
I tried to see if someone beat me with this, couldn't find anything:
http://www.theneweditor.com/index.php?/archives/7544-Only-in-a-Chicago-Polling-Place....html
Only in a Chicago Polling Place...
The Chicago Sun-Times' Annie Sweeney reports that 20 voters in a North Side Chicago precinct were told not to worry when the apparently non-working pens they were given to mark their ballots really contained "invisible ink" that would be read by scanners.
The election judge who told the voters about the "invisible ink" was called -- I love this, it's so Chicago --"misinformed."
One of the duped voters was quoted by the Sun-Times' Sweeney:
"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?"
When these sophisticated voting scams can fool the 'people of privilege' among us, who can feel safe?
Punch 10...
Update: Here is a YouTube video of a report on the story by the Chicago CBS affiliate ... these voters were given "plastic styluses" with "invisible ink" according to this report... (these people were essentially given plastic sticks which they were told contained "invisible ink"...)
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http://www.theneweditor.com/index.php?/archives/7544-Only-in-a-Chicago-Polling-Place....html
Only in a Chicago Polling Place...
The Chicago Sun-Times' Annie Sweeney reports that 20 voters in a North Side Chicago precinct were told not to worry when the apparently non-working pens they were given to mark their ballots really contained "invisible ink" that would be read by scanners.
The election judge who told the voters about the "invisible ink" was called -- I love this, it's so Chicago --"misinformed."
One of the duped voters was quoted by the Sun-Times' Sweeney:
"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?"
When these sophisticated voting scams can fool the 'people of privilege' among us, who can feel safe?
Punch 10...
Update: Here is a YouTube video of a report on the story by the Chicago CBS affiliate ... these voters were given "plastic styluses" with "invisible ink" according to this report... (these people were essentially given plastic sticks which they were told contained "invisible ink"...)
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