CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Chicago’s top election official said authorities don’t expect intimidation of voters as they go to the polls Tuesday, despite suggestions that some people will be “watching” the voting.
President Trump has more than once urged his supporters to go to polling places and—in his words—“watch carefully” for fraud.
There’s been no substantiated evidence of the wide-spread fraud he alleges. But some worry about poll watchers intimidating voters.
Marisel Hernandez, who chairs the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, said officials are not worried about that in the city.
"It has been fairly quiet. We have not received complaints or advisories of impending action at any of our polling places," she said.
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Still, she said, the Board has talked with police, Homeland Security and others federal officials about the possibilities, and what to do in any eventuality.
"We have also worked with the Chicago Police Department, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice - as we do with all elections. We have been working with those entities to make sure there are no threats, and what we need to do in the event any contingency arises," Hernandez said.
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Even before Tuesday’s voting started, Hernandez said turnout was high, with early and voting by mail already shattering records. So a lot of people are expected to come out to the polls Tuesday.