GOP Robocalls Tampered with Chicago Elections
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 16th, 2014 12:08 am by HL
GOP Robocalls Tampered with Chicago Elections
ThinkProgress: Chicago election judges received misleading and factually incorrect robocalls before the midterm, causing close to 2,000 of them to not show up on Election Day. As a criminal investigation gets underway, the Chicago Sun-Times has tied the calls to two Republican activists while the Republican Party claims they acted alone. An unknown number of election judges received one or more automated phone calls that informed them about an additional required training session or told them they needed to vote a certain way in order to keep their position. As a result, polling places across the city were understaffed and lines reached seven hours in some precincts. A smaller number of voters were turned away from certain locations.
