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Where are you getting your 2.1 million figure? It was 913,000[0]. Combined with 699,000 votes for Clinton/Kaine from suburban Cook County[1]—whose voters seem

Where are you getting your 2.1 million figure? It was 913,000[0]. Combined with 699,000 votes for Clinton/Kaine from suburban Cook County[1]—whose voters seem to have been unaffected by this breach—you get the 1.6 million number reported by AP for the county[2]. [0] - https://chicagoelections.com/en/wdlevel3.asp?elec_code=4 https://chicagoelections.com/en/wdlevel3.asp?elec_code=4 - must manually select 'President & Vice President, U.S.' [1] - http://results1116.cookcountyclerk.com/summary.aspx?eid=110816 http://results1116.cookcountyclerk.com/summary.aspx?eid=1108... [2] - https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/illinois?mcubz=0 https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/illinois?mcubz=0

vforgione 9y ago
I'm pretty sure this is a reference to the "vote early and vote often" phrase that is typically correlated with Chicago, and especially with the Democratic machine politics. Source: Chicagoan. And I found this hilarious.
- gvb 9y ago
  Alternate take: "It's not a big deal, most of them are dead."
  - vforgione 9y ago
    Also excellent. Someone else in this thread made a similar joke and has an all too literal response. I'm starting to think our irreverent sense of humor for our city's politics doesn't translate well.