Chicago: Hundreds of thousands expecting a ballot sent by mail may be disenfranchised

Possible glitch with vote-by-mail system

Updated at 06:24 PM today

Chuck Goudie
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October 26, 2010 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- This year marks the first Illinois election that any registered voter can cast their ballot by mail, no excuses necessary. Even as the deadline for those ballots to be postmarked nears, problems are brewing.

An Illinois county election official is telling the ABC 7 I-Team that thousands -- potentially hundreds of thousands -- of voters who are expecting a ballot sent to them by mail may be disenfranchised.