When news broke last week that Illinois Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney’s name had been misspelled as ‘Rich Whitey’ on some Chicago voting machines, election officials said that it was too late to fix the problem. But the ensuing embarrassment has turned out to be some kind of motivation, because The Associated Press now reports that “crews will work overtime to reprogram thousands of electronic voting machines.”
Chicago elections board chairman Langdon Neal said 530 machines being used for early voting and an additional 4,200 destined for the Nov. 2 election will be reprogrammed and retested.
Neal apologized for error, and blamed a private vendor. Until the typo is fixed, a notice will appear in the city’s early voting locations, alerting voters about the problem.
(h/t Political Wire)
