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Re:An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans by rossitter on Friday August 18, 2017 @09:49AM (#15046100)
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

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Re:An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans by vforgione on Friday August 18, 2017 @10:01AM (#15046235)
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.

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Re:An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans by gvb on Friday August 18, 2017 @10:16AM (#15046361)
Alternate take: "It's not a big deal, most of them are dead."
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Re:An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans by vforgione on Friday August 18, 2017 @12:21PM (#15047532)
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.

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