Cook County, Illinois, is a total train wreck tonight.

David Axelrod, the big-gun Democratic consultant who has been working with Duckworth, is on TV right now yelling and screaming about Cook County. He’s doing this as a Claypool representative. He is saying there are 200 precincts in Cook that won’t be counted until tomorrow night. Total train wreck in Cook.

This Cegelis race probably won't be called tonight without all those votes from Cook getting into the mix.

Jesus.

:(

Freeps are crowing about "Mr Pitt" in Chicago...

Is there a particular problem with Cook County that the rest of the state wasn't having?

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...Doesn't look like fun....readin' a cash register tape. What is the actual "bottle neck" in reporting the backup numbers? Is it at the DRE?

This can't be good.

You must be beat.

Cegelis is losing pretty bad.

I think this race is over.

it'll be by two votes per precinct, if you average it out.

Not bad for an underfunded crew facing the entire Democratic establishment.

...oh, and this whole Illinois race has become the poster child for how fucked up e-voting is.

. . .are you prepared to and do you have evidence to claim it impacts the 6th CD. The allegations concern the South Side and Evanston, which is nowhwere near the 6th CD, so please don't tie a potential Cegelis loss to this without any damn evidence.

X number of votes apart? That's what we have in Washington, and one of the things that made our 2004 Governor's race so crazy.

A candidate has to ask for it. Calling for a recount costs $75,000.

Between DFA and PDA, she will get it.

can ask for one, but does have to pay for it. Gregoire did that; got the money right away.

These devices are having trouble reading but they have paper trails which would take up until tomorrow to check against.

The precincts in question are South Side of Chicago and Evanston, so it would have very little impact on the 6th CD.

More DuPage. We were expecting to get whomped in Cook, so there won't be any saving grace for Cegelis whenever they get the mess untangled. But it does mean we're stuck here, because they aren't going to call the thing tonight, likely.

. . .the precincts in question are not near the 6th CD unless you have some insider information I don't. The South Side of Chicago and Evanston, where the allegations are being made, are nowhere near the 6th CD.

If all the devices are from the same manufacturer, then the problem could be all over Cook. Is it the same device all over Cook?

. . .what is being alleged is votes are just sitting waiting to be counted. So its not like there is a glitch in the system it seems like human error, negligence or just ignorance.

I just saw the guy on WGN holding one. Once again, are they all from the same manufacturer?

All the devices are the same throughout the county.

I posted a link to them on post #6.

Tell her we supported her as a Dean Dozen, and she did us all proud this time. She is a winner just for staying in the race.

I find it hard to appreciate Durbin, Obama, and Rahm at all now. It did not have to be this way.

She's a winner, no matter what.

:cry:

and you are absolutely right.

Yet our votes are always fucked up electronically. Why cant they use the same technology? :shrug:

Voter Verified Paper Ballots. Nothing less will do.

The electronic fraud will be totally undetectable...

My county is switching to touchscreens in time for the next round of voting in June.

My partner and I were told that the county is desperately short of poll workers (over 150 short in a primarily rural county) so we signed up as volunteers. After several weeks and hearing nothing from anyone about being accepted as volunteers, we called the county registrar's office and were told that notifying/accepting volunteers was up to the parties, not the registrar, and that I should just wait. Well, it's been yet another month and we've heard NADA. Meanwhile, there are training sessions you're supposed to get and these new touchscreens have me worried about voter fraud.

In short, we're pretty disgusted. I think my partner and I will just vote early with paper ballots if we can get them.

Our whole government is a train wreck. They have been warned, sued, pleaded with to fix the problems for years now. Christ.