No Confidence in Illinois Primary
From the Chicago Tribune, a story about the recent Illinois primary, lawsuits for recounts, faulty equipment, and dissatisfied election workers:
Fueled by concerns about “poor management and organizational incompetence,” Maureen Murphy, vice chair of the county GOP and a member of the county Board of Review, said she has met with about 200 suburban election judges who detailed a litany of problems from the March 21 primary.
Among the issues, she said, were a touch-screen voting machine that “blew up like an M80″ and had to be unplugged; machines showing votes that hadn’t been cast; and machines not working at all. In one meeting she asked about 125 judges how many of them were confident that every vote at their polling place had been counted, and no hands went up, she said.
“We tell people every vote counts. But we do not believe every vote has been counted,” she said. “This makes what happened in Florida, folks, look like a textbook election,” she said, referring to the 2000 presidential election.
Election officials have agreed that faulty equipment led to Election Night mishaps, . . . .