As of about 2:30pm EST, voter turnout in Lake County continued to be record-breaking!
Ilsa said that there have been, however, reports of registered voters' names - many of them long-time voters - inexplicably missing from rosters. People taking calls at voting issue hotlines said they were getting a lot of calls related to similar problems.
Hopefully the race won't be close enough for such tactics (assuming at least some of it was deliberate...) to have any bearing on the outcome, but it is disgusting nonetheless!
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After I posted this I read that Tim Robbins' name was not on file at his polling place.
"Apparently Robbins has been voting at that polling place for more than a decade, but today his name wasn't on the register. They told Robbins he had to fill out a provisional ballot but he didn't want to do it. An argument erupted between Robbins and the poll worker. Robbins allegedly got loud and the poll worker said he was calling the cops.
Robbins accused the poll worker of trying to intimidate him so he wouldn't vote.
Robbins went downtown to the City Board of Elections to get proof he was good to vote.
He told TMZ:
"This is what you have to do to vote... I had to go down to see a judge... My name was not on the roll, and I'm not the only one. According to workers, 30 people in 5 hours had been taking off the rolls. You can do the math on that. 6 per hour, per district across America..."
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