Not a particularly useful comment but if you read the article it does say that there were admin credentials to the voting systems in the then publicly accessible data, so maybe.

It does, however also say that there is no indication the data had been accessed previously, not that I believe that statement.

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 - must manually select 'President & Vice President, U.S.'

[1] - http://results1116.cookcountyclerk.com/summary.aspx?eid=1108...

[2] - https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/illinois?mcubz=0

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.

Alternate take: "It's not a big deal, most of them are dead."

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.