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posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 4:42 pm

Comments

Chatham was out of Republican ballots at 530. Weren’t sure they would be getting anymore or not.

Comment by Ihatepolitics Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 5:02 pm
How do you run out of ballots when every state primary prior to Illinois reported higher than expected turnout? These county clerks need to be held accountable.

Comment by ihatepolitics Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 5:10 pm
My parents’ precinct here in Adams County is out of ballots for both parties, and has been since at least an hour ago

Comment by Nick Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 5:14 pm
Voting extended to 8:30pm in Sangamon County due to shortage of ballots in 10 precincts.

Comment by Paceman Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 5:34 pm
For the record, never in Kendall County have we used all 43 Democratic ballots before. We didn’t know what to do.

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 5:42 pm
Is anyone making book on the significance of ballot shortages around Springfield and the extended hours in Sangamon County?

Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 5:42 pm
OW, in that case you could’ve given ‘em GOP ballots and told them to write in if they didn’t like any of their choices. /s

Comment by Six Degrees of Separation Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 5:49 pm
–MarkSuppelsa@MarkSuppelsa
Reporter notebook: Anita Alvarez’s headquarters in Palmer House where there are no TV’s to see results, no balloons or signs, says our crew.–

Alvarez certainly does have the video problems.

I’m guessing the audio has malfunctioned, too.

Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 5:52 pm
A combination of factors is most certainly driving Democratic turnout. OW, ready to leave the dark side yet???

Comment by Ducky LaMoore Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 5:52 pm
Donald Trump golfed today.

Tom Cross would be proud!

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 5:55 pm
I’m going to be fascinated to see how Raunerites do tonight…

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 6:00 pm
–tom kacich@tkacich
Four years ago precincts CC 2 and 3 in Champaign had 39 voters. As of 5 pm today they had had almost 500.
Retweeted by capitolfax–
5:47 PM - 15 Mar 2016

Gotta be Bernie, right?

Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 6:01 pm
- Six Degrees of Separation -

I think everyone got so confused they forgot about that… option.

- Ducky LaMoore -,

I’ll wait for the River Wards to come in first, LOL

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 6:09 pm
Tornado Warning for just west of Springfield. Hope all have voted and are in a safe place.

Comment by Arthur Andersen Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 6:34 pm
Rubio drops out of presidential race

Comment by Pacman Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 7:10 pm
Our polling place was so busy the last two hours that we did not have time to take a count at 6:00 p.m. Over 800 voted. We were swamped but did not run out of ballots. I have only a small amount of experience as an election judge but I was impressed at the number of young adults who voted. Many but not all took Democrat ballots. There are apartments in part of our district that house students and the number who registered as first time voters was high. Also had high school seniors who voted for the first time.

Cruz won our district 2:1 over Trump and Sanders beat Hillary by about the same margin.

Comment by Nearly Normal Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 7:26 pm
That picture of Dunkin’s headquarters… just wow. You should know how low you’ve sunk when you can’t get anyone to come eat free food.

Comment by carbaby Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:16 pm
Dunkin said, “I reached out to Juliana Stratton and warmly congratulated her.”

Rauner told him to say that too. Did Dunkin really call? We know Rauner did not in Nov 2015. Ha!

Comment by cdog Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:48 pm
Just heard from my parents in Adams county that they got to their polling place at 6pm and didn’t get to vote until 9:25 due to a ballot shortage. And they only got to vote then because there happened to be a judge in their precinct waiting to vote who issued an order to allow voters to vote on ballots from another precinct. Appears to be a problem throughout the county: http://www.whig.com/article/20160315/ARTICLE/303159795

Comment by nate Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:04 pm
Very satisfying to see Dunkin finally go down. No doubt he will next be discarded by Bruce like last night’s trash.

So is Dunk’s last day June 30? The end of the fiscal year?

Comment by Politix Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:04 pm
Waiting for Dunkin to dim the lights and belt out “My Way.”

Comment by Arthur Andersen Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:10 pm
==Waiting for Dunkin to dim the lights and belt out “My Way.”==

Waiting for Dunkin to dim the lights and belt out “Bruce’s Way”.

There, fixed it for ya’ /s

Comment by Gruntled University Employee Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:28 pm
Gruntled, lol!

Comment by Arthur Andersen Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:36 pm