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* Last week, 1,500 absentee ballot requests were found in a Rock Island post office box and they had apparently been sitting there for weeks. Local officials initially thought the PO box was owned by the Democrats, but now Rock Island County Clerk Karen Kinney says it’s owned by the Illinois Opportunity Project, co-founded by Dan Proft and Pat Hughes…

Ms. Kinney said that, after investigators looked into the postal box, a man brought the ballot applications to her office Thursday and Friday but gave few details on why submitting the applications took weeks. All those applications, she said, will be mailed ballots.

Ms. Kinney has asked Rock Island County State’s Attorney John McGehee, Sheriff Gerry Bustos and the Illinois Attorney General’s office to look into the matter. […]

Pat Hughes, co-founder of the Illinois Opportunity Project, confirmed his group rents a Rock Island postal box for absentee ballot applications. But he said he was unsure if it was the same box, and he will determine if it was. […]

“In Rock Island County, we sent out thousands of applications, and received a little over 1,500 applications in that P.O. box,” he said. “Every single one has been delivered to the clerk.”

It’s getting awful late to send those in.

Oops.

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 9:34 am

Comments

I’m not sure why anyone is surprised the Proft group is working to actively suppress votes.

Comment by ya never know Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 9:36 am
Follow through at the end of a campaign is critical.

I guess those absentee applications are just for Proft and Hughes to brag on, and not get ballots for people?

Yikes.

Follow through.

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 9:39 am
Just beta testing. They’ll work out the kinks in time for 18.

Comment by Henry Francis Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 9:45 am
And they have the gall to claim the Madagan machine is corrupt.

Comment by Porgy Tirebiter Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 10:02 am
What a despicable voter-suppression grift, the act of a true loser, in every sense of the word.

You can’t win with your ideas, so you resort to trying to cheat people out of their votes through deception.

Brought to you by the pay-to-play, corporate welfare king of Kenosha.

Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 10:07 am
As Officer Barbery says,”Nothing to see here.”

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 10:16 am
Were those ballot requests from a Republican list or a Democratic list?

Comment by Guzzlepot Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 10:42 am
Wonder if the requests came from mailing to Ds — which means the whack jobs are suppressin’ — or Rs which means poor Brandi caught the shaft while the boys were selling pop corn at the fake movie

Comment by Annonin' Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 10:45 am
Gives Proft the opportunity to scream about how the system is rigged or Madigan and the PO boxes he controls.

Comment by HRC2016 Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 10:52 am
Perfidy

Comment by Honeybear Tuesday, Nov 1, 16 @ 12:19 pm