Your Guide to 2014 Midterm Election Voting Problems
There was no shortage of voting difficulties on Tuesday.
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No one ever said democracy would be easy. Sporadic voting problems—some trivial, others more substantial—were reported on Election Day. Here's a run down of the nationwide problems reported Tuesday.
Upwards of 2,000 election judges in Chicago didn't show up to their polling places after receiving "malicious" robo-calls giving out erroneous information, the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners said. The board had planned for 10,000 election judges to be assigned for Tuesday's election, and an unprecedented number didn't show up.