https://redstate.com/soren_dayton/2010/11/02/it-has-begun-in-chicago/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usFri, 12 Jun 2026 08:10:33 -0400<![CDATA[Chicago, where I grew up and lived for 26 years, has been the butt of jokes about corruption and election fraud. This behavior has seeped across the border at times into Indiana. For example 31 people were convicted for voter fraud in the 2003 East Chicago (Indiana) Democratic mayoral primary. At the very least, this year the Illinois Democratic Party and election apparatus has become the butt of jokes. Thirty-five counties sent absentee ballots late to military voters, including the county with the largest military vote. (incidentally, Mark Kirk, the Republican candidate for Senate is a Navy Reserves vet) The Illinois Democratic Campaign Committee, chaired by Senator Dick Durbin, sent out nearly 1,000,000 absentee ballot applications late, with return addresses to the state party. A similar operation in Bucks County, PA has resulted in all the absentee ballots to be impounded.]]>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 05:41:31 -0400<![CDATA[Soren Dayton]]>https://redstate.com/soren_dayton/2010/11/02/it-has-begun-in-chicago-n36871