Have there been any reported voting problems in Illinois?

You guys have any problems? Know of any? I swear I've checked on line and can't find any reports of much going badly here in Illinois. The biggest complaint I'm seeing is high turnout is making people wait!

What do YOU know about your area?


Laura

....in Chicago with the punch ballot not lining up properly. She double voted on some judges because the card didn't line up properly.

Cheers,
Kim :toast:

we only had 4 provisional ballots and one federal ballot cast with a turnout of around 74-75% (including absentees)...long lines in the morning, the evening was surprisingly slow. I was out of the precinct and to the satellite with returns by 8:30 pm.



Mary Catherine

and though I wasn't by the door where people were coming out (I was usually up the street handing out flyers) I was there at one point when a poll worker was talking about the paper continually jamming on a couple of machines that the ballots went into. I'm sorry, I don't know what the machine is called. I don't know that it affected voting in any way, but it did seem to be an indication that substandard or old equipment was sent out to this place, at least.

There were no challengers, though at one point two very College Republican-looking guys were hanging around for a very short time. I didn't ask them who they were. They were outside, then one of them went inside for a minute, then came back out and left.

I was there from 3-7, and only saw a police car drive by once. (On the other side, a car with a loudspeaker on the roof drove through the neighborhood all evening urging people to get out and vote. I gave them a thumbs up when they went by me and got a "hey baby!" for it. It was fun.)

The woman who was by the door (who I'm sure gave her report to Election Protection) said later when she was giving me a ride home that it was chaotic. I guess the poll workers weren't very experienced. Several people were sent to other places to cast their ballots.

There was never any line, but a steady stream of people went in and out in the 4 hours we were there. It dropped off to sporadic by 6:30pm and only a few in the last 15 minutes.

We went inside at exactly 7:00pm and the machines were already being broken down. The woman I was with (who seemed much more experienced at this sort of thing than my green ass) seemed disgusted by that.

Personally, I had a great time. Everybody I gave flyers to was really friendly and positive. It wasn't too cold but I'm glad I had my gloves and earmuffs with me. We were supposed to be non-partisan, but I grinned often. A window in the apartment building across the street had a Kerry Edwards sign up, and every now and then a woman would stick her head out the window and yell "VOTE KERRY!" and people would whoopYEAH!

Odd thing, a bunch of kids walked by me and I joked "hey, you gonna vote?" and they laughed, and asked me how old they had to be. They asked me who I thought was going to win and I broke my non-partisan guise long enough to say "Obama!" and they acted as if they didn't know who he was! "You mean that terror guy?" "NO! That's Osama. Barack Obama is going to be a Senator and go to Washington." "Oh, ok." I mean, really, how could a black kid in Chicago not know who Obama was? I guess their parents aren't at all political.

That's my story. I wasn't sure what to expect, but I'm glad I did it, and I'll do it again.

We were at Austin High School, btw, if that means anything to anyone.