Comments on: Lake County Clerk Apparently Clueless

By: ArchPundit

ArchPundit — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:36:07 +0000

I’ll vouch for it being a crazy cycle. I’m not sympathetic to the clerk so much, but election workers in general I’m very sympathetic too. Everyone is pretty wound up.

By: OneMan

OneMan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:16:27 +0000

Ellen, Rob_N
Drivers license guy had an outdated Alabama DL, it wasn’t even from IL. When challenged on it he started spinning a host of theories as to why they were asking the questions.

The difference is this time when you tell someone to take something off or turn it inside out now they think you are trying to keep them down and trample on their rights, before they just did it.

Again the fact we are seriously considering putting someone from each party at early voting to talk people down is a sign.

Sorry but the strange has been turned up to 11 in my opinion.

By: Rob_N

Rob_N — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:06:25 +0000

OneMan,

Given the number of newly registered voters this year one would expect those folks to perhaps not exactly be as knowledgeable as yourself about the process.

No reason call it strange. Besides — Dan Curry and Pat Bond and Willy Helander are hot on the case to make as many oceans out of goldfish ponds as they can to boost Party First propaganda!!

(The quip about getting calls at the election office for yard signs cracks me up. Who better to call for a yard sign request than the people running the election!)

By: Ellen Beth

Ellen Beth — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:39:42 +0000

And no one ever showed up to an election with a button on. Tell them to take if off. No one ever showed up with an old drivers license before? They could have just forgotten to get their update or perhaps they are really driving on a ticket and not wanting to deal with getting an AAA card to get the license back. Send them to the Secretary of State for a new license and if they cannot get it, be done with them.

By: OneMan

OneMan — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:43:39 +0000

I have to say you may want to cut her a bit of slack here. We have had some strange things going on, not to say that I think anyone is engaged in wholesale vote fraud (or even retail vote fraud) just little strange things that are making this election interesting….

Brain surgeons wearing campaign materials to early voting…

Different people calling election authorities asking for yard signs.

People voting (and it turns out you can) using out of date non-Illinois drivers licenses.

It is getting entertaining enough here we may have a democratic and republican party official at our election authority over the weekend during early voting to help deal with stuff.

By: Rob_N

Rob_N — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:43:56 +0000

Maybe she's hoping to catch all those dead goldfish in the act of fraudulently voting.

By: BirdWatcher

BirdWatcher — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:50:29 +0000

One word, “fail” LOL

You make the point so easily. Thank you, Arch

So Willard wants to check EVERYONE in conveniently selected precincts, even though she already knows which registrations are problematic?

Hmmmmm. Perhaps public uncovering will cause Willard to re-read the law.

Again, thank you.