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“You’re not going to have a conversion like this without some problems.”
–Tom Leach, spokesman for the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, on problems with the new high-tech voting system in Chicago
“Turnout was supposed to be low enough. Why make it even worse?”
–Voter Maria Pesquina, of suburban Summit, who showed up to vote at 7:20 a.m. Tuesday, but couldn’t cast a ballot until 12:30 p.m. because of problems with the optical-scan voting machine
“This Election Day is going to become Election Week.”
–David Axelrod, Cook County Commissioner Forrest Claypool’s media strategist, on the election returns in the race between Claypool and John Stroger for the County Board presidency
