Commenter “An American” has still more to say about the counting of Election Day ballots:
There are definitely irregularities.
I’m not all that convinced by the “there’s way more registered voters” meme, because there was a huge push to register people (especially young people to vote Democrat).
“This election does deserve to be looked into though. Unfortunately, according to the Daily Herald, it won’t be.
“Illinois Board of Elections spokesman Matt Dietrich said the agency contacted McClellan’s office and was satisfied with the explanation given for the error.
“He said because the problem was solved before the results were certified, there won’t be any further investigation by the state board.
“McSweeney said the election board should continue its investigation, but he was pleased the error was fixed.
“’I’m glad for two reasons,’ McSweeney said.’“One, that the vote is finally right, and two, that the person responsible for this disgusting incompetence is leaving office.’”
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20181108/glitch-causes-mchenry-county-vote-undercount-fix-hands-board-seat-to-democrat
SBE doesn’t care, media doesn’t care, politicians on both sides don’t care.
Here’s the blog post containing An American’s comment:
McHenry County Blog
Comment from One Named “In Favor of All Paper Ballots”
November 12, 2018
mchenrycountyblog.com/2018/11/12/comment-from-one-named-in-favor-of-all-paper-ballots
SBOE is in Madigan’s pocket and has been for a long, long, long time.
Just ask Mike Kasper! https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-remap-amendment-fight-met-20140627-story.html
Where will Mary turn up next?
There is a judge position open with the retirement of Chief Judge Sullivan.
Here is a summary of the press coverage of the vote count problems in the November 6, 2018 General Election in McHenry County.
The Daily Herald “Glitch” article by Jake Griffin and Lauren Rohr is the only article that mentions “some” (not all) of the early votes were not counted.
“As for Tuesday’s undercount, McClellan said a filter on the county’s election reporting system had been blocking some of the early votes from being displayed correctly.”
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But no further explanation as to how some but not all were displayed correctly.
A filter blocks some but not all?
What filter(s)?
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McHenry County press release Thursday November 8, 2018 at 1:30PM –
“McClellan discovered early Thursday afternoon that the county election website had not updated with early voting numbers.”
mchenrycountyil.gov/Home/Components/News/News/14447
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Capitolfax Thursday November 8, 2018 –
“Turns out, the early votes were counted but not tabulated online.”
capitolfax.com/2018/11/08/as-many-as-24000-votes-may-be-missing-in-mchenry-county
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Chicago Tribune article Thursday November 8, 2018 at 6:18PM
“On Thursday [November 8] afternoon, County Clerk Mary McClellan discovered that the website where the vote totals were displayed “had not updated with early voting numbers,” the release said.
County Board Chairman Jack Franks said it appeared that about 24,000 votes were affected by the undercount.”
chicagotribune.com/suburbs/ct-met-mchenry-county-election-undervote-20181108-story.html
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Associated press article picked up by the Daily Herald Thursday November 8, 2018 updated 6:28PM.
“Vote counters in a northern Illinois county failed to include early voting numbers in Election Day results, officials said Thursday.”
“The county’s vote totals were underreported by nearly 20 percent because of a software “glitch,” McClellan said.”
“However, vote totals in neighboring counties showed only about 1 to 2 percent of voters skipping the statewide races.”
County Board Chairman Jack Franks said it appeared about 24,000 votes were affected by the undercount.
Illinois Board of Elections spokesman Matt Dietrich said the agency contacted McClellan’s office and was satisfied with the explanation given for the error.
He said that because the problem was solved before the results were certified, there won’t be any further investigation by the state board.”
dailyherald.com/article/20181108/news/311089843
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Daily Herald article Thursday November 8, 2018 updated at 7:06PM
“McHenry County’s vote totals were underreported by nearly 20 percent because of a software “glitch,” the county’s chief election officer, Clerk Mary McClellan, acknowledged Thursday.”
“As for Tuesday’s undercount, McClellan said a filter on the county’s election reporting system had been blocking some of the early votes from being displayed correctly.”
dailyherald.com/news/20181108/glitch-causes-mchenry-county-vote-undercount-fix-hands-board-seat-to-democrat
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Northwest Herald article Thursday November 8, 2018
“Outcome of District 5 County Board race changes after clerk discovers website didn’t include early voting numbers”
“The outcomes of three major McHenry County races changed Thursday after Clerk Mary McClellan updated the county’s election website to include early voting numbers.”
“McClellan later told the elections board that early voting numbers were not included on the county’s website.
The clerk added the early voting numbers, and election results updated on the county’s website, bumping vote totals in every race.”
nwherald.com/2018/11/08/outcome-of-district-5-county-board-race-changes-after-clerk-discovers-website-didnt-include-early-voting-numbers/ay94qrl/
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Northwest Herald Thursday November 8, 2018
“The State Board of Elections talked with the clerk at that point and was told that it was a matter of early voting not being included in the results – a computer error.
McClellan thought they previously were posted, and we knew that, because on Tuesday, soon after the first results had been posted, we made sure to ask specifically when early voting would be included in the numbers: first or last?
Different counties do it differently.
We were told they already were included in vote totals.
As we found out Thursday afternoon, when the early results were inserted and timestamped at 12:32 p.m., they were not already included.”
“As it turns out, it actually was because the early voting results were inputted into her computer system but were not added into the totals live on the election website.”
nwherald.com/2018/11/09/styf-election-results-anomaly-was-worth-digging-into/a8l5mn9
We need COMPLETE details of the “ERROR”.