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A mistake in Cook County resulted in a Libertarian candidate’s bubble, which is to be printed next to the candidate's name, not being printed on vote-by-mail ballots. And in McLean County, a third party company hired to mail out and track vote-by-mail ballots sent about 180 vote-by-mail ballots with an envelope that had a Monroe County Clerk Office’s return address printed on it.
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Pritzker and Democrats made voting less transparent – there is no visual inspection of your vote available anymore (like there use to be) once scanned into ‘the machine’. One can only wonder why this safeguard was removed.
My confidence was shaken when our Clerk of the Court, decided it was a good idea to spend money on mailing out nicely printed color pamphlets to every household for purposes of soliciting voters to request a mail in ballot.