A week after the election and the outcome of the race for Cook County States Attorney remains undecided. Most votes should have arrived by this time but some may still be straggling in. Now they’ll start counting “provision” ballots, presumably people who went to the wrong polling place.
When the polls close Judge Burke had 52% of the votes, leading by a few thousand votes, while Mr. Harris, the Cook County Democratic Party’s endorsed candidate garnered 48% of the votes. That had been a consistent result throughout the night both immediately after the polls closed and a few polling places had reported their results and later when the absentee ballots that had been received on time had all been counted. It wasn’t until later that the race narrowed. Now Judge Burke leads by just 1,700 votes and its 50-50.
This is not exactly a confidence builder. Retorting that the ballot counting is being witnessed by pollwatchers of both political parties does not assuage me much. In Chicago for practical purposes there is no such thing as a Republican pollwatcher. Most are “Republicans for a day”. So, what’s going on now? Democratic Party apparatchiks are counting the votes and the endorsed candidate is catching up. Hoodathunkit?
Sounds like you are perpetuating a right-wing conspiracy. Perhaps an ER Doctor could explain that Democrats “finding” votes is perfectly normal.
I was an election judge for 25 years in multiple different polling places. Almost EVERY Republican election judge during that period was actually a Democrat.
Most of the time that makes little difference.
I meant the implication that everything was not above board with the votes, but it still sounds like a right-wing conspiracy.
Is there an ER Doctor in the house? We have an emergency case of right-wing “voter fraud”. Get the patient to a re-education camp – STAT.
I think that before you declare fraud there ought to be some evidence. Very much a left wing belief I know.
Steve
Exactly.
Just “finding” 10,000 votes is not proof of fraud. It can happen to anybody. Last week, I was cleaning out my closet, and I found 10,000 votes.
“I think that before you declare fraud there ought to be some evidence. Very much a left wing belief I know.”
Huh. Now I’m confused. For two years I recall bizarre claims about a certain “dossier” proving Putin was Trumps puppet master. Only later, well, later for idiots, to understand that this was a garden variety Hillary paid for smear campaign. Supported by A certain BO an JB. And supported by “journalists”. (Snicker).
Your hypocrisy is legendary, Steve.
So how he’ll do we “ save democracy “?
One thought might be to pay these positions enough money to attract qualified candidates.
How much? A lot.
People old enough to remember the 1960 presidential election will recall that Daley held back the Cook Co. vote count until the rest of Illinois had reported. He then claimed enough votes for Kennedy to swing Illinois to the Democrat ticket, giving Kennedy the Presidency.
There probably has not been an honest vote count in any large American city since colonial times.