Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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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.
There was a bipartisan group put together by Phil Rock and Jim Thompson called the Committee for Honest Elections that scrubbed the rolls in 1982 and 1986. It found unbelievable numbers of illegal registries, like people registered at addresses that don’t exist, scores of people registered at a two flat, hundreds of names registered in three or four unit apartment buildings. Mostly in Cook County but also in Madison and St Clair Counties. Something like 60,000 names removed from the rolls. George Ryan scrubbed them a little, but Judy Topinka and subsequent Republican candidates either didn’t have the funds or… Read more »
I’ve posted comments about this before and will again. My daughter left for college in the year 2000 and never returned home. School, job, living arrangements.in another city 200 miles away. Every year since then she has received a new voters card at our home. I have tried at least 5 times to have this issue corrected with zero results. The local election board will not remove her unless she appears in person, during regular business times and signs an affidavit. 200 miles away, full time job, 3 kids so as you can imagine that’s not going to happen. I’ve… Read more »
So essentially in a situation like this your daughter will not come here to vote but someone can get a mail in ballot and vote for her. But remember they told us elections are secure and there’s no fraud. They’ll tell us that your situation is an anomaly. Fraud happens everywhere there’s a buck to be made, are we to believe it doesn’t happen with elections.
We got mail in applications for her for the last several elections. I thought about voting them and mailing them in but unlike a democrat and being an honest conservative voter I didn’t.