Green Party Gubernatorial Candidate Rich Whitney on Chicago ballots as Rich Whitey

[werepossum]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/2801976,CST-NWS-whitney14.article

Illinois Green Party Gubernatorial Candidate Rich Whitney appears on ballots as Rich Whitey in 23 Chicago wards, roughly half of which are predominantly black areas. Since the Green Party predominantly draws votes away from the Democrat Party and this IS Chicago, I'm going to assume this is a dirty trick.

Since it's so freakin' funny I'm going to excuse it.

 

[Scotteq]

I guess it's a good thing Rich doesn't live in Iowa... :whiste:

 

[Moonbeam]

Fuck, that's going to give him a big advantage.

 

[Thump553]

OK 99% of the people here know more about programming than I do, but the claim that the state can't fix this error in the three weeks left before election day boggles my mind.

 

[Genx87]

OK 99% of the people here know more about programming than I do, but the claim that the state can't fix this error in the three weeks left before election day boggles my mind.

Govt quagmire. By the time it gets through the approval process it will be 2013.

 

[PJABBER]

The Greens did it deliberately. It is an inside joke. All they wanted to say was that their candidate couldn't handle his weed.

Greens! LOL! Gotta luv 'em!

 

[dmcowen674]

Since the Green Party predominantly draws votes away from the Democrat Party and this IS Chicago, I'm going to assume this is a dirty trick.

Both sides doing dirty tricks in Illinois.

The counties with a high amount of military overseas didn't bother to send absentee ballots out to the soldiers since 8 out 10 military vote Republican.

 

[werepossum]

Both sides doing dirty tricks in Illinois.

The counties with a high amount of military overseas didn't bother to send absentee ballots out to the soldiers since 8 out 10 military vote Republican.

Probably true - it IS Illinois. (And it's freakin' hard to resist a dirty trick that funny. "Hey man, something wrong with my ballot. It says "Rich Whitey" - but it doesn't say which Rich Whitey."

I'd have to look into the missing ballots a bit more. I know the Dems launched a whole bevy of lawyers on Florida on election day 2000 to preemptively challenge military ballots. But some states have such late primaries (trying to reduce the cost and length of the election) that it's damned hard to meet the deadline. New York for example had only four days between it's primary and the deadline for mailing out military ballots - practically speaking this is probably impossible.

This needs to be attacked on two fronts (besides strict enforcement.) States need to establish primaries far enough out to meet the deadline, and the federal government needs to set a statute date to ensure this. It is a national election, after all. And the military, states, and DoJ need to work together to ensure that every service member gets ample opportunity to be rotated to a place where he or she can vote electronically.

LMAO Genx87!

 

[Thump553]

Both sides doing dirty tricks in Illinois.

The counties with a high amount of military overseas didn't bother to send absentee ballots out to the soldiers since 8 out 10 military vote Republican.

I know in my state (and several others I have studied) the voter has to specifically request an absentee ballot-I'm not aware of any state that sends the ballots out unsolicited. Many (most?) states have changed their absentee ballot procedures to make it easier, not harder, for our service members to timely cast their votes-and the feds, under the Federal Voting Assistance Program-have been actively pushing the states along in that effort.

Are you claiming election officials are violating their oath and committing crimes by deliberately not sending out properly requested ballots? I'd like to see a link to that info (as well as a link to your claim that 8 out of 10 soldiers vote Republican).

The Department of Justice has an extremely active elections fraud section and has for years and I haven't heard of any such trials. This sounds like BS to me without anything concrete to back it up.