Robo-calls Targeted Chicago Election Judges
From the Chicago Sun-Times
Automated telephone calls to the home phone numbers of thousands of election judges were "a serious attempt to disrupt our operation," Chicago Election board chairman Langdon Neal said Monday.
Neal also said that over the weekend, his office had received a number of “very disturbing reports" about "calls made to our election judges at their homes and on their cell phones.”
Judges of election are the officials responsible for the conduct of the election in each polling place.
About 6,000 of the 15,000 judges in Chicago had received such calls, Neal said. He would not specify whether judges were targeted for these calls based on their party affiliation or geographic area.
A spokeswoman for the Cook County Clerk’s office said some suburban Cook County judges also got some robocalls. But she added that they were disregarded by the suburban election judges, because the information pertained specifically to Chicago judges.
In the calls, judges were told that they had to vote a certain way in order to serve as election judges, Neal said. They were also incorrectly told they needed an additional training session.
Only one three-hour session given by the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners is required.
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From the Chicago Sun-Times
Automated telephone calls to the home phone numbers of thousands of election judges were "a serious attempt to disrupt our operation," Chicago Election board chairman Langdon Neal said Monday.
Neal also said that over the weekend, his office had received a number of “very disturbing reports" about "calls made to our election judges at their homes and on their cell phones.”
Judges of election are the officials responsible for the conduct of the election in each polling place.
About 6,000 of the 15,000 judges in Chicago had received such calls, Neal said. He would not specify whether judges were targeted for these calls based on their party affiliation or geographic area.
A spokeswoman for the Cook County Clerk’s office said some suburban Cook County judges also got some robocalls. But she added that they were disregarded by the suburban election judges, because the information pertained specifically to Chicago judges.
In the calls, judges were told that they had to vote a certain way in order to serve as election judges, Neal said. They were also incorrectly told they needed an additional training session.
Only one three-hour session given by the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners is required.
Read more in our daily News Update...