Twenty ballots were cast with "invisible ink" pens:
Apparently, said city election board spokesman James Allen, the poll workers told incredulous voters—including one spouse of an election judge—that the stylus used for touch-screen voting was actually an inkless pen to fill out paper ballots.
It sort of makes you wonder, doesn't it, whether poll workers just get bored:
"I'm incredibly angry, and I feel so dumb," said Amy Carlton, 38, of Rogers Park. "And I am not a dumb person."
Carlton said all the judges at the polling place insisted that they had been trained in the use of the "magic" pens.
"I've voted before," Carlton said. "I was thinking, 'This is crazy,' but when someone in authority insists, what are you supposed to do?
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