Did you vote in this Primary? Check in here!!!

[davsand]

I voted early. According to the County Clerk's office, the number of early voters was down. They expect the number of voters to be down a lot from what it was in the last election.


Did YOU vote in this Primary? Not sure I want to know how you voted--only that you DID, in fact, vote...




Laura

[Oceansaway]

1. !

[jaxx]

2. Yep.

democratic ticket. ;-)

[frazzled]

3. Yep--but very low turnout so far (under 10%) in my precinct

We moseyed by around noontime to the local IBEW union hall, where our precinct votes. After completing our ballots (we'd filled out detailed cheat sheets for every damned race), we turned in our materials and asked the election judges if it had been that slow all day. "100 voters out of 1400 registered" was their response. Ouch. That's like a 7% turnout.

So it will be another party- (read: machine-) based primary, with only the connected few voting (plus us, who are pretty unconnected). I was surprised, after all my research, to see how often my choices diverged from the list provided by my 42nd Ward Democrats group. Not on everything, but on what I thought were some important ones. Oh well.

[Ava83]

4. I voted

I actually walked in and and announced "I am here to do my civic duty!"

I managed to amuse only myself *sigh*

[chitown606]

5. Yep!

Hoffman
Quinn
Obrien
Straight Dems the rest of the way

[spiritual_gunfighter]

6. Voted Republican ticket

To vote against Fmr. Cheney stooge Ethan Hastert.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

18. that's understandable.

we forgive you.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

20. I felt pretty weird doing it

but he lost so I think it was justified. Republicans in the 14th district actually did the right thing for once. Not another Hastert in Congress.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

21. no more fat hastert, two, eh? That was a great result.

[Luciferous]

7. Just got back, and there was low turnout in my area...

according to the women at my polling place, they only had 168 people come in today.

[surrealAmerican]

8. At around lunchtime I did.

It looked like about an average turnout for a primary in my district.

[Wabbajack_]

9. Yup

My picks in key races were

Senator Gianoulious

Governor Hynes

Lieutenant Link

Comptroller Krisnamoortithi

Treasurer Kelly

Cook President O'Brien

Cook Assessor Berrios

[Kittycat]

10. Yes.

Turnout was slow this morning. I was number 50 at 9AM. I know my close precinct dems turned out though - as I received several emails today.

[dalaigh lllama]

11. Sure did!

They said at our polling place (district 14) that there were MORE early voters this time. It must vary in different areas.

[Paulie]

12. Checked in

I got me my sticker

[greatauntoftriplets]

13. I voted in the primary.

:hi:

[tencats]

14. Voted half an hour before the polls closed.

Chicago ward 27. I was #57 on the counter for the paper ballots and the electronic touch screen counter had only 35 total. Voter turn-out in my area would seem to be very very low. Before I went out to vote I asked around at the shop and neighbors, discovered that I was the only one that was going to vote today. That would be one voter out of sixteen.

[stevebreeze]

15. I got to vote for me twice

At least once in every primary for 16 years, it still feels weird.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

16. Right after work. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

17. LOL> someone tried to vote often:

So much for shedding Chicago’s “vote early and often” reputation.

A mouthy Cook County election judge was booted from the precinct where he was working this afternoon for attempting to vote several times, using racial slurs to talk about President Barack Obama and referring to Cook County as “Crook County,” witnesses said.

Cook County sheriff’s police officers were summoned about 2:45 pm., and escorted the 51-year-old election judge from the precinct — Columbus Manor School, 9700 Mayfield Avenue. He was not arrested.

“He attempted to mark up some ballots and feed them in to the machine,” said Courtney Greve, a spokeswoman for Cook County Clerk David Orr’s office.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/2025635,election-judge-booted-precinct-020210.article


NOTE: this jerk was a REPUBLICAN election judge.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

26. This sounds like the guy I worked with during the last local election.

He set up the precinct the night before the election and he had positioned all the voting machines in such a way that anybody walking behind the voters would be able to see who they were voting for. When I questioned him on this about 9:00 am that morning in April, he got real defensive and started shouting about the "egress" and that he had permission from downtown to set up the machines this way. When I questioned who was the person downtown that gave him permission to set up the machines this way, he wouldn't tell me the name or position of him/her. Needless to say, I got on my cell phone and called downtown and was promptly told by the woman from the Board of Elections, that there was no question that they had to be turned around. When I tried to give this arsehhole my phone, so he could hear it with his own ears, he refused to speak to the woman and said to me "How do I know that this person is legitimate?" "You could've just dialed anyone, I don't know that this person is legitimate."

Then he proceeded to threaten me with expulsion from the polling place for being "disruptive" by the Oak Lawn Police Dept. When he threatened me I got on my cell phone again and this time I called the States' Attorney Office. I told them what was going on and they said "we'll send out a State's Attorney and a Cook County Sheriffs deputy to handle this. Needless to say, when the arsehole realized I had called the State's Attorney Office, what did he do but start turning the machines around. When the State's Attorney and the deputy from the Sheriff's Office arrived at the polling place, about 10-15 minutes, he tried to blame everything on me. I was "disruptive" and he wanted me "out of the polling place". He had every right to do this because he had been a judge in this particular precinct for 15 years and he was "the boss". Well when the arsehole said he was "the boss" the State's Attorney said "Excuse me, but no one that is serving as a judge, is "the boss". You're all the same." He also told him to turn the machines around so the voter had privacy and he told him if he didn't do it, the sheriff's deputy would escort him from the polling place and arrest him.

This guy was such a d*ckhead, he didn't speak to me for the rest of the day and when we closed the polls at 7:00 pm he wouldn't let me near the scanner or the card activator. He had to do all the totaling, consolidating and transferring the data by himself. The thing is this was a local election for the mayor of Oak Lawn and the some of the trustees (alderman) in Oak Lawn. Needless to say I wrote an epistle to David Orr's office a few days later and said I hoped that they would replace this man as a judge. I don't know if they took my advice or not because I worked yesterday in a different precinct altogether. But reading the story, it sounds like this guy's MO.

Oh and he was a Repuke judge. Typical hypocrite Repuke.

[WCIL]

19. My husband and I voted at 6pm

We were the only two voters there. 6 precincts vote at our polling place, and we were numbers 155 and 156. The election judges said it had been a VERY long, dull day.

[LSK]

22. Voted!

[barb162]

23. Yes n/t

[Venceremos]

24. I voted

In my precinct we vote at a winery and our turnout was higher than average. I attribute that to the winery's delicious menu and espresso bar. But overall my county had a low turnout of 22.61%.

[whathehell]

25. Yep.

[mopinko]

27. i was a judge

which is why i didn't see this post until now.
i did go back to my home polling place during a lull. but we were fairly busy. i expected a snoozer.

[mucifer]

28. yup I voted

[ColesCountyDem]

29. I did at 6:02 a.m. . n/t