A judge ruled the CAGOP does not have to provide the state with information on voters who used their ballot collection boxes. | Unsplash
A judge ruled the CAGOP does not have to provide the state with information on voters who used their ballot collection boxes. | Unsplash
Residents across the region are complaining that Sharpie markers are bleeding through their ballots.
Some have called on voters to bring their own pens to mark the ballots. Chicago’s Morning Answer’s Amy Jacobson tweeted about the issue earlier today after voters were voicing concerns.
“If you are voting at LAKEVIEW HS bring your own black pen!” Jacobson tweeted. “Ballots are double sided and the sharpies they provide are bleeding through. Polling Marshal says there’s nothing she can do.”
Later, Jacobson tweeted that the ballot scanners at the polling place weren’t working and all the paper ballots had to be placed in a box.
Alex Nitkin tweeted that the Sharpie bleed-through wouldn’t cause ballots to be rejected. He said that Jim Allen with the Board of Election Commissioners said poll workers were given instructions regarding the Sharpies.
“Allen says poll workers have gotten instructions on how to handle sharpie bleed-thru, which ‘wasn't a huge problem, just a scattered issue here and there,’” Nitkin tweeted.
CBS 2 spoke with Allen regarding the Sharpie markers and Allen said it wasn’t an issue.
“One bleed-through on the front will not hit the target on the opposing sides,” Allen told CBS 2. “So your ballots are designed to anticipate that.”
Cook County told CBS 2 that ballots marked with Sharpie markers would be accepted. Any ballots that had large bleed-through would be reviewed by judges for verification.
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