Uptown Update: Your Monday Chuckle
A post from the Uptown Update gives one addage to democracy in the City of Chicago. The addage being that the dead vote in Chicago.
This apparently is a precinct map of the 46th Ward where the 2nd and 27th precincts according to Uptown Update are cemetaries Graceland and St. Boniface. I think someone might need to redraw their precinct maps.
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2nd precinct (St. Boniface cemetary, off Lawrence & Clark)
213 = Total
74 = James Cappleman
139 = Helen Shiller
27th precinct (Graceland Cemetary)
269 = Total
188 = James Cappleman
81 = Helen Shiller
The fact that the two results are opposite (The Graceland precinct HEAVILY in favor of Cappleman) shows that while most of the land are graves, there are residents there. Either that, or Cappleman's campaign is also committing fraud.
Why people don't challenge is because it's bogus.
i asked James Cappleman about fraud in this election (after years of saying it wouldn't be hard to get at least 1 judge in each of the 43 precincts; you have 4 years to schedule 1-2 days off. ) He said on the BPN board that it was taken care of.
If you can't get 1 - 3% of the anti-Shiller vote to take time to monitor the elections and/or get out the vote, why should it surprise you that your side loses. The highest anti-Shiller vote was in 1999 (with 3 candidates)-- the support base (theoretically) has increased by hundreds while Shiller's has, at best, remained steady. Lack of a Shiller vote isn't really SHiller's doing as it is oppostion's NOT doing (i.e. appaling to moderate voters/thos ewho could go either way)
Can someone (a reporter or candidate or judge) look at the addresses of a precinct to see if there are, say 100 people registered at the local currency exchange, or if there truly are a lot of people form the shelters voting (i.e. more than should be able to). That way, you could actually substantiate significant fraud.
Looking at the results, and knowing there are large rental buildings near the most suspect precincts, makes me highly doubt there is such fraud that Cappleman should have won the election. Even IrishPirate conceding in that respect.
I can see maybe 100, or even 200 Shiller votes slipping by...but 700?
All land within the city's boundaries, including cemeteries, is required to be drawn within some precinct.
Precincts often include parks, vacant lots, commercial-only areas, etc. Some of the precinct boundaries along the lakefront actually extend out into the lake, or in the 42nd ward to include Navy Pier, because technically its within the city boundaries.
That said, anyone who hope to pull of an upset for any candidate in the 46th ward needs to aggressively weed out fraudulent voters long before election day, AND have a well-trained cadre of pollwatchers (preferably attorneys) in every precinct. Otherwise, you're wasting your time.
BTW, the fraud is taking place in the SRO housing, mental health facilities, and numerous homeless people who like to vote in multiple precincts.
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