Vosicky Needs Help with Discovery Count!!- ill state senate

this is a state senate race within the il-6/duckworth district. joe vosicky is within about 100 votes, and needs help. they are just now getting around to it, because they did not release the final count until the day before the recount deadline. hmmm...


VERY IMPORTANT -- Vosicky Needs Help with Discovery Count!!
Posted by: "Bob Babcock" BobBabcock@ameritech.net boblinda17
Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:28 am (PST)
Recounts in other areas of the country have overturned "elections".

Suspicious activities in the 46th require this recount - and they need YOUR help!

Call Bob Peikert at 630-421-2405 after reading the parameters below.

Please help find other people to help!

Subject: Vosicky Needs Help with Discovery Count!!

Here is a note from Bob Peickert bobpeickert@msn.com

We need assistance for the recount in the 46th district beginning
tomorrow.
We will need 8 people to be at the DuPage Election Commission office
at 8:15
am. If you can attend, PLEASE call me at 630-421-2405. We also need an
additional 6 people to be at the Election Commission warehouse at
9:00 am.
That's located at 2580 Diehl Rd., Ste A in Aurora.
It is absolutely critical that we have the required number of observers.
Please make every effort to assist tomorrow and Thursday.
Best to call me to confirm.
Thanks
Bob

whose voters were unable to vote? and why did it happen?

Illinois's 6th congressional district—
The district contains some of the western suburbs of Chicago in DuPage and Cook counties. Democratic strength in the district has grown in recent years, but the balance still tilts to the Republicans. Duckworth's compelling biography and her campaign's heavy financial backing and free publicity made her chances seem good, and Democrats had high hopes. However, Roskam edged her out by a 51% to 49% margin.

covers the northern suburbs of Chicago, including portions of Lake, McHenry, and Cook counties.


EIRS reports in area
4156 Polling Place Problem Cook Illinois No Woman registered at her church a few months ago but never received a registration card. She went to her local polling station where she was told she was not on the list. She is a spanish speaker and did receive assistance from a spanish speaking poll worker. They told her she could not vote because she was not on the list. They did not offer her a provisional ballot

3346 Polling Place Problem Cook Illinois Washington School No 1 out of 2 machines was down; lines were long

1957 Polling Place Problem Cook Illinois No The polls are open, (at 78th and Peoria), but the poll workers do not know how to operate the equipment, so people are being turned away from the polls. Caller has heard from other individuals that other polls are not open as well.

1746 Polling Place Problem Cook Illinois No Voter has voted, but 1 of 4 machines at polling place is not working. Voter is hearing several reports that the machine spits out ballots and says "defective ballot." Voter believes that votes are not being counted or are being counted multiple times by the defective machine. Also hears reports that people who have registered in the past and voted several times previously are not on the list of voters. The polling place is a "black polling place" and he believes the problem with the machine and the voters not being on the voter list is the result of intimidation.

1743 Polling Place Problem Cook Illinois Yes Ballot scanner spitting out ballots as defective; voters leaving

1690 Polling Place Problem Cook Illinois Crispus Attucks Hall Yes Caller arrived at 6:30 this morning and the equipment wasn't working, but the polling place was open. She heard the poll workers say they didn't have the memory cards. Caller waited 20 minutes and left, but will try to vote again later this morning.

1675 Polling Place Problem Cook Illinois Yes Voter told to use paper ballot when electronic machine was available for use. Judges didn't know whether voter should use paper ballot or electronic machine.

1595 Polling Place Problem Cook Illinois Yes She says polling place is "chaos." Poll workers are not trained and not helpful.


1519 Polling Place Problem Cook Illinois Rock __ Salvation Church Yes Caller waited from 6am-6:35am at polling place, which opened at 6am. Caller was 6th person in line; those ahead in line had already voted their ballot but could not input the ballot into the voting machines because of machine problems, which the poll workers could not resolve. Caller had to leave before voting ballot to go to work. Caller will try to leave work early to attempt to vote again.

1497 Polling Place Problem Cook Illinois Yes Man calling because wife voted this morning (took her 1/2 hr to vote with 5 people ahead of her). The touchscreen computers failed so they voted by paper ballot with only 3 e-pins available for use. Just called to report problem.


1416 Polling Place Problem Cook Illinois Yes Polling place is not yet opened. The 11th, 22nd, and 26th precincts are reporting that the polling places are not open.

1385 Polling Place Problem Cook Illinois Yes Machines are new - need pens to fill in the arrows. But there are no pens, and the pollworkers aren't able to instruct the voters on how to vote.

1581 Registration Problem Cook Illinois Yes Daughter was registered, polling official said she wasn't. No provisional ballots available at polling place.

anyone aware of irregularities reported in this race?

I haven't checked for undervotes, etc. on the SOE web pages

i think it is completely encompassed by il-6, elmhust and bensenville.
although most of cook county is blue, this part has been solid red.
during the primary, this is an area where i was doing gotv, and they told me they no longer kept a poll sheet, so i couldn't check it. they were told in training, under no circumstance should they give any info to campaign workers.
this is a big area full of those folks that dr dean likes to say- you might not be a republican. joe's showing, even if he doesn't pull it out, is sort of a miracle. folks from the cegelis campaign worked this race. progressives did well in these usually unopposed statehouse seats.

Are you talking about precinct login books? All precincts must keep them.
And they are public information. Anyone can look at them.
Sounds like you ran into some partisan run around?

These days when there has been a lot of manipulation, I think that people should check the
number of people signing in to the poll book in each precinct to the number of official votes on election day.
And also information on absentees and provisionals should be checked.
Where there have been checks, a lot of irregularities have been found.
As noted on other threads.


ps. based on the races, it looks like this area is pretty balanced- red and blue.

one precinct, they were kind and helpful as can be. the other 4, forget it.

and as far as the balance in that district, it is shifting, in no small part thanks to christine cegelis. until she got 44% of the vote in '04, dems barely bothered to field a slate. many thugs still go unopposed.