Local: Big trouble at Peoria polling places (UPDATED)
Eyebrows McGee is reporting that she encountered a huge problem when she went to vote: She was given a ballot with only national races. She contacted the Peoria Election Commission and was given this explanation:
The Peoria Election Commission, when I called, informed me that this is a special case for people who’ve moved precincts within the last 30 days and that it was poll worker error that I was given the incorrect ballot. They also told me this was a SYSTEM-WIDE PROBLEM that they’ve had many calls about today, and have workers out trying to “fix” the poll worker error on the fly.
This, in my opinion, could taint the result of any local election in which the results are close. How many people are affected by this? How many of those people who were affected able to realize that something was amiss? Even if the numbers affected don’t rise to the level that would affect the results of a race, there’s still a perception.
I respect Tom Bride, executive director for the City of Peoria Election Commission. He’s gotta be having a really bad day because of this.
UPDATED: It may not be as bad as all that. Rich Miller says in a subscriber-only post that the problem is NOT system-wide and affects only a “handful” of voters. Bride also told Miller that turnout is heavy.
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Gave a short interview for the WEEK news at 6 p.m.
Also heard the power went out at Manual and Logan Rec during polling.
I had that same problem last election. When the code was entered to generate my ballot, they entered the wrong code and I only got the federal ballot and no state/local options. Unfortunately I had already had cast my ballot thinking you voted federal then got the state/local options. I received a paper ballot to fill out and mail in, but never did find out if the corrected ballot counted.