Demo State Rep lost by 235 votes Asks for Recount after realizing there we

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Were irregularities

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/10305285.htm

Local election officials denied improprieties in the Nov. 2 vote, saying any problems stemmed from heavy turnout. In Peoria, which makes up more than three-fourths of the district, 72 percent of registered voters cast ballots.

Schock, president of Peoria's public school board, did not immediately return a call for comment Tuesday.

Slone supporters contend irregularities included election judges who asked far more minority voters for identification than whites, and a system of handing out provisional ballots that forced some voters to wait 45 minutes or more to vote.

"I think putting all this together points to a pattern of deliberate voter suppression aimed primarily at Democratic voters, especially newly registered voters, the poor and African-Americans," Slone said.

[floridadem30]

1. good article