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The judges co-operated in letting the voters put their ballots into the Optiscan.<BR/><BR/>Sharon PiersonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37192269.post-68762020473787668282008-11-07T17:26:00.000-06:002008-11-07T17:26:00.000-06:00Some Problems Encountered in Precincts of the 40th...<B>Some Problems Encountered in Precincts of the 40th Ward</B><BR/>11/04/08<BR/><BR/>I visited seven precincts on election day. Operations in the polling place were for the most part routine, though judges reported that there were very long waiting lines between 6 am and about 9 am.<BR/><BR/>Several judges complained that the training they received was minimal. One judge said the training consisted of nothing but how to set up the equipment. She said there was no training on how to manage voters' problems, except to be "friendly." Another judge had a trainer who appeared interested only in getting through the prescribed material, and who "blew off" questions from the trainees.<BR/><BR/>The deficiency in training seemed evident in how three particular problems were handled.<BR/><BR/><B>*</B> A young man asked to vote, but his name was not present on records in the poll. So a judge gave him the phone number for the elections department and told him to go call them and clear up his status. After the man left, I asked the judge if a provisional ballot would have been appropriate. One of the other judges disagreed. They checked the judges manual, and they concluded that the young man did indeed qualify for a provisional ballot. But he was long gone by then.<BR/><BR/><B>*</B> A young woman said she could not get to her polling place before it closed, because she lived miles away. So she asked if she could vote here in the 40th Ward. The judge in the precinct told her she couldn't. I suggested that she might qualify to vote on a provisional Federal ballot. He said he didn't think it would be valid, but he ceded to the young woman's request to vote that way.<BR/><BR/><B>*</B> Even though a touch-screen voting machine seemed to be malfunctioning for provisional voters, the precinct continued to allow provisional voters to use the machine. (Described below.)<BR/><BR/>Here are problems I observed that relate to voting machines:<BR/><BR/><B>Precinct 3</B> <BR/><BR/>While a voter reported that when she was selecting candidates on her touch-screen ballot, an error message flashed up: "Failure to save at start." The voter continued to try to vote, including pressing the "Vote" button several times. Finally, she reported the problem to the judges.<BR/><BR/>The PPA called downtown and was told to check the status on the smartcard. Its status was "unvoted." The judges were told to retire that card and to give the voter a paper ballot. The PPA then restarted the machine. It exhibited no further problems during the next hour (just before I arrived) and during the hour and a half I was present. By the time I left (2:30 pm), the machine had served about 39 voters.<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>Precinct 11</B> <BR/><BR/>The judges told me that during the intial setup they had a problem with their touch-screen voting machine. When they first booted it up, it flashed an error message: "Missing Cartridge." They called downtown and were told to break the seal on the machine and to check inside to see if a cartridge was present. They did so, and saw that a cartridge was present. A judge touched the cartridge, but it wouldn't move. When they closed up the machine and turned it on, it now worked fine. As of about noon, the machine had exhibited no further problems.<BR/><BR/>Another judge told me that one voter's ballot got jammed in the optiscan several times. But one of the judges handled the problem, and the machine offered no other problems.<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>Precinct 27</B> <BR/><BR/>Provisional ballots seemed to give indigestion to this precinct's touch-screen machine. Whenever a voter would insert a smartcard configured for a provisional ballot, the machine would immediately eject the card, blank the screen, and freeze.<BR/> <BR/>This happened for four different voters. Each time, the judge would reset the machine, then reactivate the card for a standard ballot instead of a provisional ballot. This enabled the voter to cast a ballot on the machine without further incident. The judge kept a record of the ID number for each ballot that was cast in this way. He said he would send this information downtown with the other records from the precinct, so that these ballots could be treated as provisionals.<BR/><BR/>When I visited later in the day, the judge said he had discovered the source of the problem: The instruction booklet was misleading. It did not give complete instructions on how to activate the smartcard for a regular provisional ballot. Instead, the manual seemed to guide the judge into activating the smartcard for an audio provisional ballot. Audio ballots come up with a blank screen.<BR/><BR/>The judge said he discovered he should have been pushing "Menu" then "1." The instruction book led him to believe he was to push "Menu" then "3." I examined the booklet, and I agree with his assessment.<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>Precinct 47</B> <BR/><BR/>A voter reported that, when she touch the Obama button on the touch-screen, the McCain button lit up instead. She said this happened several times. After the judges tried and failed to fix the problem, they shut down the machine and called downtown.<BR/><BR/>About three hours later, a service tech arrived. She worked on the machine, recalibrated it, then declared it functional.<BR/><BR/>One of the judges wanted the service tech to confirm that the machine was fixed. She ask the tech to simulate the routine of marking a ballot. The judge activated a card and gave it to the tech. The tech inserted it and press the button for "English." The screen came up in Spanish. The service person then pushed several other buttons. None worked right. The machine was then shut down and an order was placed for a new machine.<BR/><BR/>When I visited the precinct at the end of the day, the unofficial "chief" judge told me that a replacement machine had arrived, but that she refused to turn it on. "Forget it," she said. "I've had enough of these machines."<BR/><BR/>The problematic machine's results were tallied during the closing of the polls. The results indicated that twelve regular ballots had been cast, plus one provisional. The judges deemed this to be accurate.<BR/><BR/>One of the judges then told me that the machine's problem occurred only after the first provisional ballot was cast on the machine. The provisional voter had withdrawn the card prematurely. The next voter was the one who experienced the vote-flipping.Roy Lipscombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00684664396221376938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37192269.post-1564386428728254912008-11-07T16:50:00.000-06:002008-11-07T16:50:00.000-06:00Observations on the Conduct of the Con-Con Referen...Observations on the Conduct of the Con-Con Referendum<BR/>11/04/08<BR/><BR/><B>3th Precinct</B><BR/><BR/>This precinct was properly distributing the blue slip by the time I arrived.<BR/><BR/>One judge told me that the training for the blue slip was confusing. She said it seemed as though the trainer was telling the judges to ignore the blue slip. But, the judge said, the trainer was probably trying to say, "Tell the voters to ignore the referendum wording on the ballot."<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>4th Precinct</B><BR/><BR/>I was not given a blue slip when I applied for my own ballot at 9:32 am. There were no blue slips on the judges' table or anywhere else in sight.<BR/><BR/>I informed the judges that they were supposed to be giving a blue slip to each voter. They were agreeable to doing so for all subsequent voters. One of the judges found a pad of blue slips in the storage cabinet and placed it on the judges' table.<BR/><BR/>A blue slip had been posted in the booth, but it was on the left wall of the booth, edge-on to my sight. I would not have noticed or read it if I had not already known about the con-con referendum.<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>7th Precinct</B><BR/><BR/>This precinct was properly distributing the blue slip by the time I arrived.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><B>11th Precinct<BR/>13th Precinct<BR/>47th Precinct</B><BR/><BR/>These three precincts occupied the same polling place, a meeting room at St. Ignatius Parish.<BR/><BR/>Precinct 47 was passing out the blue slip, but the other two were not. The latter two precincts did not have blue slips on the judges' table, though each of those precincts had a pad on a back table.<BR/><BR/>I mentioned this deficiency to one of the judges in precinct 47. She apologized, saying the judges at other two precincts were first-timers. At my request, she informed them about the blue-slip requirement, and they willingly complied.<BR/><BR/>This occurred about 11:35 am. At that time, precinct 13's optiscan counter was at 247, and precinct 11's was at 174.<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>27th Precinct</B><BR/><BR/>* This precinct was properly distributing the blue slip by the time I arrived.<BR/><BR/>* Also in this precinct, I met two representatives of the states attorney's office who were making a routine visit. They said their main interest was in how the blue slips were being managed. They said only about half of the eleven precincts they'd visited so far (10:10 am) were distributing the slips.Roy Lipscombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00684664396221376938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37192269.post-46211372828434342022008-11-05T14:25:00.000-06:002008-11-05T14:25:00.000-06:00Hello, I am Dr. Lora Chamberlain and I myself watc...Hello, I am Dr. Lora Chamberlain and I myself watched 4 precincts non compliant to the blue Con-Con fliers.<BR/><BR/>Chicago Ward 37, prec 21, approx 11:30am, The judges had the blue fliers on the tables but were not giving them out to the voters, I got the name of one voter coming out of the poll who did not get a flier who would agree to talking to someone but did not have the time to fill out an affidavit;<BR/>Danny Pierce, 4949 Iowa, Chicago, 60651, 708-772-1673<BR/><BR/><BR/>Chicago Ward 37, prec 36 At the Jennings Peoples Funeral Home, 5022 W. Chicago at 12:02pm, I walked in and there were no blue Con-Con fliers anywhere, I followed a few voters out of the polling place to see if they would sign affidavits but none of them agreed to it but one of their friends said that she would sign an affidavit later if someone contacted her because when she voted at her polling place at 20th and Michigan she did not get the flier either, her name is<BR/>Cora Robinson, 2001 S. Michigan, Apt 6L, Chicago 6016, 312-282-3529<BR/>I went back into the polling place and when I asked the judges they said they did not know anything about the blue Con-Con fliers and I asked them to look into the container from the elections division and then they found them and pulled out the fliers and put them out on the table.<BR/><BR/>Chicago Ward 37, prec 10 at 1:55pm Blue fliers posted in all the poll booths alone but only given out to the 20 voters, the judges said that they ran out of them and were not sent enough of them but when I told them to look harder in the election container then they found a large pack of them and started to give them out to the voters.<BR/><BR/>Chicago Ward 13, prec 39 approx 3pm in afternoon, judges put the fliers in the booths but were not giving them out to the voters themselves until I asked them, they were stacked on the table but being completely disregarded.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37192269.post-24869828775717090962008-11-05T12:10:00.000-06:002008-11-05T12:10:00.000-06:00I received NO blue Con Con slip (or any other info...I received NO blue Con Con slip (or any other information on Con Con, written or verbal), when I voted yesterday afternoon (about 3:30 pm) at the 5th Precinct of the 49th Ward in Chicago at 7450 North Rogers Avenue (Gateway Centre Apartments).<BR/><BR/>Otherwise, the people running the polling place were professional, courteous, and helpful.<BR/><BR/>Ernest B. Norrman, Jr. enorrman@gsb.uchicago.eduAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com