First, you can watch the Illinois gubernatorial debate that includes Green Rich Whitney – although it excludes Libertarian Lex Green – by clicking here to watch the livestream. It starts at 9 PM EST (that’s 8 PM in Illinois).
Also (H/T to commenter WalterGPW), the previously reported voting machine error that would have listed Whitney as “Rich Whitey” in some heavily African-American areas is going to be fixed. From the Chicago Sun-Times:
An embarrassed Chicago Election Board will spend the money and time to re-program and re-test 4,200 electronic voting machines to correct a spelling error that changed the last name of Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney to “Whitey.”
If the mistake had been anything other than “Whitey” in a city with a history of racial politics, the costly correction might not have been necessary, officials said.
Dead brothas don’t vote for no “rich whitey”, sucka.
I don’t think dead people care if your name is spelled right or not they only vote Democrat.
vote early
vote often
According to the previous article, about 12 of those 23 wards are majority black.
“Rich Whitey”, I would love to know what wards that error was to appear in. I mean, was it an attempt to discredit him in wards with a predominant non-white voters? I’m not prone to consirpacy, but this Illinois we’re talking abt.
Also, independent Scott Lee Cohen is being left out of the debate.
Wow, the Libertarian’s name is Green and the Green’s name is one letter off from Rich Whitey! LOL.