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Why The Returns Of This Presidential Election Will Be Really Slow

Trust me, I know my way around a precinct polling place especially in Chicago. As most voters know polling places are geographically located within walking distance inside areas containing less than 1000 voters. Within the precinct there are precinct captains. Any political party has a right to their own captains. Within the inner-city the rarest precinct captain is a Republican. Because they just don’t exist. The captain’s job is to convince the voters to vote for party endorsed candidates and make sure the precinct voters vote right. Next are the election judges. They are the ones in charge of the precinct election. There are three or sometimes more of them. One of them must be a registered to an opposite party. In heavily Democratic precincts the Republicans are Republicans on paper only for sheer convenience. The judges are poorly paid and minimally trained people that are supposed to supervise the process protecting the integrity of the vote and privacy of the voters. Of...