In 23 wards in Chicago, the touch-screen vote-counting machines show the name of the Green Party gubernatorial nominee, Rich Whitney, as “Rich Whitey”. See this story. The error will not be corrected. However, the error only exists on the screen that pops up as the voter is asked to review the choices already made and finalize that vote. Most voters in Cook County use paper ballots anyway; the touch screen voting machine is at polling places to serve voters with certain kinds of disabilities, although any voter at the polls is free to use the touch screen machines.
Any *Poor Whitey* ballot labels in Chicago ??? — where voters live forever – the old graveyard votes.
The president of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce is Rich Studley. I kid you not. . . .
hmmm – any idea if these areas are more populated by “minorities”
“Rich Whitey”? Sounds like that could be Meg Whitman’s job description on the California ballot.
Thanks to Ballot Access News for being part of the media coverage that exposed this injustice.
It was reported over at IPR that now, the BOE has decided it will correct the error.
So, Rich Whitney should be Rich Whitney on all the ballots!
-KW
I wonder how this error came about in the first place. I haven’t seen these touch screen displays, but surely they should be using the same database of candidate names for when the voter is selecting their candidate and for the review screen as well. It’s not like the candidates are going to change their names while the voter is casting a ballot.
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