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The votes are usually counted at centralized locations, like a county or state HQ.
All votes (whether paper scantron ballots, or electronic voting machine cards) are usually delivered to these HQ.
There will likely be representatives of all campaigns at any counting location.
(Though a lot of counting in IL is done by computers...)
This is a primary, not a caucus; so there is no "count at the polling place."
I am sorry, but I do not know who it is best for you to talk to, especially in your neck of the woods.
Perhaps go to your polling place and ask the people running it if you can help deliver ballots or something like that?
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Well, in Illinois the primaries are not run by the parties (GOP, Dems, etc) but instead are run by the Illinois Board of Elections.
So, theoretically, it is in the state's hands - so obviously we are talking lots of bureaucracy where most people (even people getting paid) do not know what is going on.
I just got back from voting. They had a thug at the door that tried to turn me away for "electioneering" because I had a Ron Paul 2012 T-shirt on (Electioneering... I forgot, only the mainstream media's allowed to do that), but I ended up being allowed to vote if I turned my shirt inside out. +4 votes for Paul from my family.
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The thing that makes me worried is that the electronic vote reader wasn't accepting ballots for some people. So they had me just throw it in the side. Of the machine where it was with all the other ballots.
On a side note, my parents both like Ron Paul but are not voting for him. Mom is too lazy, and Dad doesn't like that he has to vote on a Republican ballot...
It is a damn shame and they brush it off like it is nothing
On a side note, my parents both like Ron Paul but are not voting for him. Mom is too lazy, and Dad doesn't like that he has to vote on a Republican ballot...
It is a damn shame and they brush it off like it is nothing
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Yea, I'm with you. In Chicago about 1/3rd of all ballots were too big to be scanned so "people" might have to trim them with scissors (not a joke!)
You'd think they would test the ballot and counting system. But oh well.
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Yea, this is a big problem for Ron Paul in Illinois. There are lots of people who like Ron Paul but are just too embarrassed to vote on a Republican Ballot. I have literally encountered hundreds of such people in the past few months while promoting Paul.
I honestly just think it is an excuse to not leave the house and vote but I can see other people getting testy about just voting on a neutral ballot.
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Yea, there is surely a lazy component as well.
But at least in Chicago, there is a STRONG sentiment that the Republicans are pure evil - and people do not want to be associated with the evil, even if they think Ron Paul is awesome.
Which is ironic because the state is under a Democratic iron grip of fraud and scandal. Just look at Blago and Ryan. And I'm sure Quinn isn't the clean and pristine person himself.
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I live in Chicago and they would not allow me to vote for Paul unless I took the Republican ballot.
In other words, anyone who was a Democrat (you couldn't even pick Indy or Green, you were forced to pick GOP or DEM) in my ward was unable to vote for Paul if they choose to pick the Democratic ballot.
As much as I pissed and moan they refused to acknowledge that Illinois was an open primary and forced anyone who wanted to vote for Paul to pick up the GOP ballot (meaning they couldn't vote in any of the local elections which is more important to most of the people going out), it also means, at least in 1 ward in Chicago, we probably lost a lot of crossover votes.
For the record, this had nothing to do with fraud, these people were just straight up ignorant that Illinois was an open primary.
I guess the upside is anyone who wanted to vote for the other 3 frauds was faced with the same dilemma, but it hurts us more because we get more crossover than anyone else.
In other words, anyone who was a Democrat (you couldn't even pick Indy or Green, you were forced to pick GOP or DEM) in my ward was unable to vote for Paul if they choose to pick the Democratic ballot.
As much as I pissed and moan they refused to acknowledge that Illinois was an open primary and forced anyone who wanted to vote for Paul to pick up the GOP ballot (meaning they couldn't vote in any of the local elections which is more important to most of the people going out), it also means, at least in 1 ward in Chicago, we probably lost a lot of crossover votes.
For the record, this had nothing to do with fraud, these people were just straight up ignorant that Illinois was an open primary.
I guess the upside is anyone who wanted to vote for the other 3 frauds was faced with the same dilemma, but it hurts us more because we get more crossover than anyone else.
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Yes. Paul is running in the Republican Primary.
Of course you have to request the GOP ballot.
The IL primary is considered "open" because anyone registered as any party can request the GOP ballot.
You are also right that this makes cross-over votes harder because the Democratic Primary is THE GENERAL ELECTION for Chicago. So people who care about local politics will chose the Dem ballot and not be able to vote for Paul.
But this is the case in every state. Paul is only on the Republican ballot. It's the reality of running as a Republican!
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In Illinois you can only vote one ballot. So if you want to vote Ron Paul you must get the Republican ballot. The election judges were correct on giving you only the Republican ballot. But I see your point about people who get the other ballots won't be able to vote for Paul.
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