At least 1 of these people is a BEC judge taking a smoke break yesterday instead of trying to get people through the long line to vote:
By: Diane Benjamin
Elections for President happen every 4 years. Evidently BEC doesn’t realize that because they failed to plan for a lot of people showing up again.
Both yesterday and today lots of people living in Bloomington showed up at the mall to vote. Today there is a REALLY long line. County judges are trying to help since they have enough poll workers. They are asking people in line if they live in Bloomington – those folks have to stay in line. The rest can easily check in with County officials and vote.
Some people are leaving without voting. The rest are wasting their Sunday because BEC is an unaccountable election commission that will not face any repercussions for their incompetence.
The Bloomington Election Commission must be abolished. The ELECTED County Clerk is perfectly capable of handling all County elections and have adequate staff on hand so people aren’t waiting in long lines.
BEC is a bad joke with County taxpayers paying for it. Bloomington voters need to demand the City Council abolish it. No referendum needed. Why pay full time employees to do a bad job?
The below is brought to you by un-elected bureaucrats. This line is ONLY Bloomington voters:
Kind of an underhand way of promoting mail in ballots!! And I’ll bet you Bloomington, Illinois is not the only place this is happening, probably all over the country. With this milestone election, polls will be swamped and they know that. I just hope it’s democrats leaving without voting.
So.. Why are the Bloomington Election Commissioners that are appointed by the Mayor to OVERSEE the BEC director not doing anything about this ?
Maybe ask the 3 mayoral candidates
The elected County Clerk isn’t much better. Long lines happen with the county and BEC. You ever been to campus on election day? there’s been times where hundreds of people are in line waiting for hours. Some have to leave the line because they have class. ISU didn’t give students and faculty off for election day this year like they did last election either.
The kids have lots of early voting available. They pretty show up late on Election Day instead. It wouldn’t matter how many judges are there, and there will be many. Same day registration and showing up late is on them.
I think the ability to register and vote on same day is the biggest problem. Registration should close at least two weeks before an election.