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Snarkoleptic

(6,096 posts)
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 12:18 AM Nov 2014

Watching MSNBC NBC has called Illinois Gov. race for Rauner (R) [View all]

WTF?
This guy is Romney junior and has never held public office.

I think it has a lot to do with this stunt---
http://politics.suntimes.com/article/chicago/calls-election-judges-serious-attempt-disrupt-voting/mon-11032014-826pm

A barrage of automated phone calls offering false instructions to scores of election judges was "a serious attempt to disrupt" Chicago voting operations in the run-up to Tuesday’s vote, election officials said.

Between Friday and Monday, an unknown number of judges — the paid partisan employees tasked with operating polling stations — received the misleading robocalls, according to the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.

“Given the level of response that we received, we suspect it was a large number of people — we don’t know how large,” Jim Allen, board spokesman, said Monday.

Some of the judges received calls informing them that they needed an additional training session before they could work a polling station, board chairman Langdon Neal said. Only one three-hour session is required.

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