In the voter friendly confines of Chicago, voters were duped by some "invisible ink" pens. When about 20 people walked into the polling place to cast their votes for the “most important election” until next election, their pens did not work. They probably tried everything to get them to work. Draw circles really fast on another sheet of paper, shake the pen, lick the tip and press the pen tip to the paper really hard and write. Alas, none of the tried and true methods worked so when they told the “election judge” that the pens didn’t work, officials hit back with,
“It's invisible ink…the scanner will count it.”
Well done election judges. I remember playing this joke on kids in second grade (not the voting part, but the invisible ink part). I also remember having “invisible ink” in second grade, but you could totally tell when it would write something on the paper because it left a faint trail of “invisible” residue. Why grown adults would believe that they were actually using invisible ink when in second grade I could tell if it was invisible ink or not is beyond me.
I know that the poll tax and miscellaneous test conducted at polls (reading and stuff like that) were made unconstitutional many years ago and for good reason, however if someone is going to believe that you now vote with invisible ink…then maybe they shouldn’t be voting. I think Carlton Burkhardt (a lady who bought the invisible ink story) sums it up best,
“I am furious and devastated and I just feel stupid."
Yes, Carlton, you are stupid.
