New Details Reveal Possible Voter Suppression in Illinois Primary

[blackspade]

The hits just keep on coming....

http://usuncut.com/politics/illinois-democratic-establishment-refuses-to-allow-late-voting-for-voters-turned-away-from-polls/

In six counties across Illinois — Adams, Champaign, Effingham, Madison, Sangamon, and St. Clair — polling places ran out of ballots amid higher-than-expected voter turnout, meaning thousands of voters were sent home after waiting in line. On March 17, Adams County state attorney Jon Barnard went before Adams County circuit judge Chet Vahle to ask for an injunction that would grant those voters the ability to vote late due to ballot issues.

The next day, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, an ardent Hillary Clinton supporter who has introduced her at campaign rallies, filed an appeal in Illinois 4th District Appellate Court to prevent late voting. On March 23, the appellate court issued a stay on Judge Vahle’s injunction, meaning those voters won’t get a chance to cast ballots in this primary. Hillary Clinton won Illinois by roughly 35,000 votes, or a slim 1.8 percent margin, effectively splitting delegates with Sanders.

Barnard believes the Attorney General’s position in preventing late voting was due to a desire to have uniformity in the voting process, as other counties do not have late voting. But he points out that late voting would actually restore equality, stating, “I would actually agree with the call for uniformity, because there’s no uniformity in some people not being allowed to vote because there aren’t enough ballots.”

Because the Adams County Clerk must certify primary election results by March 29, Barnard said there isn’t enough time to appeal the case to the Illinois Supreme Court, effectively disenfranchising thousands of voters.

I find it very problematic that the very people charged with protecting our voting rights are the ones suppressing the vote if they think that it will help their chosen candidate. Lisa Madigan joins the ranks of Harris and Blackwell.

[Scuba]

1. Hillary supporter files appeal to prevent people from voting. Shocking.

Shocking that any Democrat or democracy-loving citizen could support this.

[tk2kewl]

5. the corrupt machine in action

[Kip Humphrey]

2. My takeaway: Vote for the disenfranchising candidate if you are sick & tired of democracy!

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. Madigan WILL NEVER get another vote from me.

I'm finished with this corrupt shit from Democrats. A FUCKING "Democrat" refuses to allow disenfranchised voters the right to vote? SCREW YOU, LISA.

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BERNIE

[surrealAmerican]

6. I wonder what she's been promised in return.

I don't think Lisa Madigan is the sort to do this for free.

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. No she's not. She's part of the Chicago machine.

I'm sure she was promised something. People need to protest her ass. Go to wherever her office is and make her life MISERABLE! Go wherever she goes and Don't leave until they get to vote! ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE - NOT ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE IF we have enough ballots! It's OUTRAGEOUS that she stopped people from voting!


Of course she's a CLINTON SUPPORTER!

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[truebrit71]

13. The Governorship in 2018 most likely...

Rauner is fucking toast....unfortunately she'd win it at a trot...

[Rebkeh]

4. Wow.

Not that I'm surprised.

[Lorien]

8. FB group committed to documenting Dem primary election fraud

check it out here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1649941911932852/?fref=nf

Just about every close and/ or delegate rich State has experienced it to some degree. The end result ALWAYS favors Clinton, of course!

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. I sent Madigan a sweet little email today and received a reply from her constituent director with 2

PDFs attached. It was the Motion to intervene and vacate and Adams County appellate court ruling. I'm not an attorney, but read them both - like watching paint dry - and their argument boiled down to: If we do this for these voters, it opens the door to more election shenanigans in future elections. Just because the Clerks made errors, it doesn't mean the state can violate the Illinois Constitution and vote a week after the results of the election are known.

I'll post the PDFs later from my laptop. I can't do it from my phone.

I sent him back a sweet reply too -

Yes, argued vociferously I see. Because of the Clerks' errors in six counties, voters who showed up to vote, couldn't vote because of the mistakes made by the Clerks. The voters did what they're supposed to do and the state didn't, so the voters are disenfranchised at no fault of their own. It's shameful. And it's made even more shameful that a Democrat argued against the voters' right to vote.

One can't help but wonder how that would have been argued had Bernie Sanders won and Hillary Clinton lost, since Lisa Madigan is a known Clinton supporter.

Did anyone look into the illegality of Bill Clinton electioneering at a polling place in Chicago? Since Illinois law states:
It is illegal to campaign inside polling stations during general election and primary election voting in all 50 states.
Specific to Illinois law, no campaign activity whatsoever is allowed closer than 100 feet to the polling place building, reading:
(c) No person shall do any electioneering or soliciting of votes on primary day within any polling place or within one hundred feet of any polling place, or, at the option of a church or private school, on any of the property of that church or private school that is a polling place.
Section a) reads:
(a) No person other than election officers and the challengers allowed by law and those admitted for the purpose of voting, as hereinafter provided, shall be permitted within the proximity of the voting booths, except by authority of the primary officers to keep order and enforce the law.

Yet, Bill Clinton illegally entered a Chicago polling place on March 15, 2016 and no one seems to care. Why is that? I mean, if election laws are so important that thousands of voters must be disenfranchised in order to follow the laws and the Illinois Constitution, surely illegal electioneering by Bill Clinton on election day is just as important, right?

Thanks for your reply. I'll be sure to share.

Kind Regards,
****** *******

I'll try to post the PDFs later.

[blackspade]

11. So instead of finding a solution, they hide behind a sham legal arguement

Typical. And no repercussions for the people that disenfranchised voters.

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. Exactly. They couldn't possibly violate the Illinois Constitution and let those voters vote a week

after the results are known because the Clerks had no idea who couldn't vote because of not having enough ballots. Anyone who didn't like the results of the election could show up and vote even if they hadn't tried to vote on the 15th or didn't get to vote for some other reason...long lines, evoting machines didn't work, etc (like those aren't voter disenfranchisement?)... they had every excuse in the book in their argument!

I tried posting the PDFs, but they're in the Adobe cloud and the acct had my name on it so I had to delete the post. I have no clue how to post them without my name showing. If anyone else can give me a clue, I'll post them tomorrow. It's an eye-opening read.

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