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.
The State of Illinois is just enshrining in law what Chicago and Cook County have always done with vote counts in national elections. Wait till the other side, Republicans, have their votes counted and then discover an even larger number of Democratic votes to swing the election.
Interestingly enough, when you dive into the precinct data, some democrat candidates seem to receive more votes than others. In my precinct, my utterly corrupt and forever elected state rep got 110 more votes than Kamala Harris – IN AN UNCONTESTED RACE. If you do the math, that means that slightly over 1/3rd of the straight ticket Republican voters – voters who voted for Trump and every other Republican, rejected every other Democrat on the ballot but then, suspiciously said, this guy, this corrupt career politician, let’s vote for this pol. In the past, I looked at this politicians sunshine… Read more »
I miss those old fashioned roll around voting booths where you closed the purple curtains with a handle, pushed down the levers and reopened the curtains. They were the size of a walk in closet and kept count automatically. I don’t remember them even having a ballot……
The only possible reason it could take two weeks to count mail-in ballots would be if the ballots were being counted by products of the Chicago Public School system. Then two weeks might be aggressive.
The counting votes for 14 days after election is such a scam. That’s how they cheat, that’s why they allow it, so that they can cheat in close elections. I’ve looked at the vote totals in my precinct in close races and they often don’t make sense, with it seemingly appear that dozens of votes go missing on obvious straight ticket Republican ballots around certification time, roughly two weeks after the election. I live in a purplish area (there aren’t many left in Crook County!). For example, Trump had three dozen more votes than the R congressional candidate in my… Read more »